Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3419 mails)

["G.T.Smith" <grahamsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Andersen wrote:
> On Monday 09 April 2007, riccardo35@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>   
>> On Tue 10 Apr 2007 06:15, Magnus Boman wrote:
>>     
>>> There are plenty of ways to do this...
>>>       
>>  you can make it as an executable file, called "rootcron" in directory:
>>
>>     /var/spool/cron/tabs
>>
>>
>> then, execute :
>>
>>     /var/spool/cron/tabs/crontab rootcron
>>
>>
>>  . . . and your executable file rootcron will be installed as your new
>> crontab named "root" in the file :
>>
>>     /var/spool/cron/tabs/root
>>
>>
>>  [ I believe  :)             ]
>>     
>
> There is no reason to make it executable. 
> Any text file will do.  It can be located anywhere.
>   

Surely some mistake here, the root cron file in the example would have
to executed to so needs execute rights :-) ...  To be honest reply is a
bit ambiguous..., but the original suggestion is wildly off the mark ...

You do have a choice.... the //etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily and
/etc/cron.monthly directory contain system wide root jobs that are
executed at the indicated times. You can ensure a script is run a given
interval merely by placing the executable script in the relevant 
directory.... The more complex option is to create a crontab table file
for a user account and activating it with the crontab command....
> I suggest you read 
>     man crontab
>
>
>   
agreed..


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