Re: create cron in FC5 question

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Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
El Sábado, 21 de Abril de 2007 00:17, Tom Poe escribió:
Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
El Sábado, 21 de Abril de 2007 00:06, Tom Poe escribió:
Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
El Viernes, 20 de Abril de 2007 23:44, Tom Poe escribió:
Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
2007/4/20, Tom Poe <tompoe@xxxxxxxx>:
I googled for cron howto, and noticed that the /etc/crontab file is
empty.  I want to run an event on a daily basis, and need to know
where to add, and how to add an event to run jpodcatcher once a day.
Any help appreciated.
Tom
First off, if you want it to run in the system cron, just
/etc/crontab, on the other hand if you want it as an user cron, just:
crontab -e
Anyways, this is an example of a basic job running daily at, for
instance, 11:00 AM

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
00 11 * * * root /home/manu/babelserver.sh

got it?

You might want to read the Crontab manual.

Hope this helps
All the best.

Manuel.
Manuel:  Thanks.  Sounds right to me.  Problem is, on my FC5, the
/etc/crontab file is empty.  There are directories for cron.daily,
cron.weekly, etc.  When I cd to those directories, there are several
files, each of which is running a shell script.  So, do I have to
create a shell script, and copy it to the directory I want, or can I
place a cron command someplace?
Tom
Actually, it's up to you, whatever suits for you :-)
Cheers
Manuel:  Please share your FC5 crontab file.  Mine is empty.  What's in
yours?
Thanks, Tom
I already did it :-)

[manu@Arbusto ~]$ cat /etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
00 11 * * * root /home/manu/babelserver.sh
Manuel:  I thought so.  Was your /etc/crontab file empty when you
installed FC5?
Tom

To be honest, I can't remember but probably it wasn't empty.
Do you have the daemon file, the man pages of cron....don't you?
[root@Arbusto ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i crontab
crontabs-1.10-7.1

Cheers
Manuel: I think FC5 has a file for startup, someplace, and it calls for cron to be run hourly, daily, etc., but it isn't the /etc/crontab file. I am looking for someone that knows what that file is, or how FC5 handles cron. I don't think it's handled like what you have.
Tom
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