Hi Donald,
* Donald Henson
Before you blow me off, let me say that I've been using Linux for about six months and this is the first time I've had occasion to set up a cron job. And before you tell me to RTFM, I've already done that as well as several exchanges on mailing lists and a couple of online tutorials. I'm here to tell you that I'm confused. You may need to know that I'm running SuSE Linux 9.0, since SuSE appears to handle cron jobs differently than everyone else.
Know how you feel! Others have mentioned crontab -e. I didn't know about this until they responded to your post. FWIW, I do it this way: - create a text file in your home dir (location of your choice) and have the necessary statements. Here's a bit from mine: SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/lib/news/bin 20 17,22 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/getmail - as root issue crontab - u <username> /home/username/pathtofile/filename - as root issue crontab - u <username> -l the later will list the crontab entry, and it will look like: rrl03:~ # crontab -u roland -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/home/roland/Files/rahcron installed on Sun Mar 14 15:26:25 2004) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/lib/news/bin 20 17,22 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/getmail Those more experienced may do it better, but this works for me. Hope this is of some help. -- Regards, Roland Hill Registered Linux User #330226 http://pl.net/~rnrhill/rhweb.htm @ http://counter.li.org