On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 08:19, Jim Westbrook wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carlos E. R."
To: "SuSE Linux E" Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 21:34 Subject: Re: [SLE] Cron Jobs The Wednesday 2004-03-17 at 20:26 -0700, Donald Henson wrote:
All I want to do is run a simple backup job every morning (early). I'm pretty sure that I can set up the crontab entry to do that. What I don't know is where to put it. I've looked at /etc/cron, /etc/cron.daily (contains a number of scripts), etc. Is there an existing script that I modify or do I create one from scratch? I'd really appreciate any assistance here.
Not there. Simply issue "crontab -e" as the user you want to run your job as. Those diretories you mentioned work diferently, you can not choose the exact hour they are run: only once a day, a week, etc.
If you are not happy with vi as an editor, use instead "EDITOR=mcedit crontab -e" (or any other editor you like, but not an X one).
Another option is to use the 'read from file' option of crontab. Use whatever editor you prefer to create a file (I use cronset) which contains the necessary instructions for crontab. Then, you execute crontab passing it the filename as the only parameter.
$ crontab cronset
JimW
Thanks. I'll put that one in my list as well. Don Henson