Hi
On 08/10/04 02:29 PM, Donald D Henson
(SuSE 9.1, Gnome 2.4, kernal 2.6.5-7.108-default)
I used kcron to set up a nightly backup but it doesn't work. I've run the crontab entry manually and the command works ok. The SuSE manual says that crontab is now located in /var/cron but that directory doesn't exist. Kcron, as it turns out, is saving the crontab in the /etc directory. An obvious solution is to create /var/cron and then move crontab from the /etc directory to /var/cron. My CLI skills are pretty weak so I would like someone to confirm that the "obvious solution" is the correct thing to do. Any assistance here will be appreciated.
The crontabs are actually stored in /var/spool/cron/tabs/$USERNAME copying the kcron tab into the relevant user file, presumably root should do the trick. Alternatively use crontab -e run as the relevant user and write it there. Regards, Ben