On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 11:27, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Friday 08 October 2004 9:29 am, Donald D Henson wrote: You might want to execute the crontab command directly. You didn't say whether you were doing a systemwide backup or a individual-user backup. Crontab works in either case, but the files it uses might be different. You shouldn't need to manipulate any system files if you're using the crontab command as an individual user.
What I do is to build a personal crontab table, ~/mycrontab, and install it using the command crontab ~/mycrontab I then check the installation with crontab -l
Paul Abrahams
Another thing to remember when using cron is that there is little to no environment (path etc.) setup for the running user, you need to set that up in your script. It is always best to use the full path to any program/script that you use. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please*