Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

["Alleman, Lowell" <lowella@xxxxxxxx>]

I assume that you meant "every day" and not "every hour"

The format is:

MIN HOUR DAY MONTH DAY_OF_WEEK PROGRAM

so you would want
0 8 * * * sh cptab

If you are editing it using "cron -e" then this works ok, but it you are
putting this is /etc/crontab then you need to add an extra field specifiy
thing username that you want the cron job to run as.  For example:

0 8 * * * root sh cptab


For more info look at the man page:

from the command line:
     man 5 crontab

In KDE you can use the URL:
    man:/crontab(5)



Hope that helps.









> -----Original Message-----
> From:	tabanna [SMTP:tabanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Friday, October 18, 2002 2:12 PM
> To:	SuSE List
> Subject:	[SLE]  getting CRON to run a backup script every hour
> between 8 am & 9 pm
> 
> 
>  ~ Please, what is the correct  "crontab"   syntax ?
> 
>  i have tried :-
> 
>  *  8-21  *  *  * sh cptab		{cptab is the name of the baclup
> script}
> 
>   ~ this is not working . . . any ideas, please ?
> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
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