Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3419 mails)

[dwain <dwain.alford@xxxxxxxxx>]

Subject: Re: [opensuse] writing a crontab and don't know where to put it
Date: Tuesday 10 April 2007 02:14
From: Magnus Boman <captain.magnus@xxxxxxxxx>
To: opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Yhea, it's good fun to be able to control the OS instead of the OS
controlling you :-)

Kind of, but I can't create the cron tab with:
crontab -e 27 4,16 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl -cron

When I did a crontab ls -l it returned no crontab for root.  When I do 
crontab -e it appears to open an editor.  I paste the above code it doesn't 
add the numbers or "*".  I also find no way to save the crontab.

Please help me tame this snarling beast so I can update automatically f-prot.

Cheers,
Dwain
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