Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:14:29 -0600 From: "John Brooks" <john@day-light.com> To: "'Andy Harrison'" <aharrison@gmail.com>, "'Joseph E. Maxwell'" <jemaxwell@jaymax.com> Cc: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Cron jobs setup Message-ID: <007801c4ece7$8beecca0$2005010a@daylight.net> In-Reply-To: <a22ff29404122806083de7a170@mail.gmail.com>
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you probably already know this, but just in case... the command to edit a crontab is: crontab -u whoser -e (assuming that your user is named "whoser") -- John Brooks john@day-light.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-database@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-database@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Andy Harrison > Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 8:08 AM > To: Joseph E. Maxwell > Cc: freebsd-database@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Cron jobs setup > > > On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:12:09 -0800, Joseph E. Maxwell > <jemaxwell@jaymax.com> wrote: > > I am setting up a cron job to run a shell script at 1 hr > interval and to > > have the output of the script sent to a user. I have this > in the cron > > file inserted by crontab > > > > cat /var/cron/tabs/whoser > > > > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > > # (cron_reg installed on Fri Dec 24 18:13:01 2004) > > # (Cron version -- $FreeBSD: > > src/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.c,v 1.12.2.4 2001/06/16 > > 03:18:37 peter Exp $) > > 0 1 * * * > > > /blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/pam2deb.shl > > MAILTO=user > > > Reread the crontab manpage. 0 1 * * * doesn't mean once per hour, it > means that it will run every day at 1AM. If you want once per hour, I > believe you can do */60 * * * * > > -- > Andy Harrison > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-database@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-database > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-database-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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