On Tuesday 10 April 2007 21:18, Pueblo Native wrote:
dwain wrote:
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 20:55, John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 10 April 2007, G.T.Smith wrote:
There is no reason to make it executable. Any text file will do. It can be located anywhere.
Surely some mistake here, the root cron file in the example would have to executed to so needs execute rights :-) ... To be honest reply is a bit ambiguous..., but the original suggestion is wildly off the mark ...
No the root cron file is not executable. Nor it is executed. It is merely read by cron and the tasks listed therein are performed per schedule.
man cron man crontab
I just signed in as root and did crontab -e and there was the code. it says it's in the tmp/crontab directory. Is this correct?
BTW, thanks for the information.
Dwain
It's there until you actually save the changes. And it's the semi-colon key, not the colon as I said (my mistake). Hit shift, then the colon, semi-colon, and it will save the file.
How do I edit this file to be able to save it as you say? Would you also please write the save command? -- Dwain Alford P.O. Box 145 Winfield, Alabama 35594 telephone: 205.487.2570 cellphone: 205.495.5619 "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning The Spiritual In Art"