Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
El Sábado, 21 de Abril de 2007 08:51, escribió:
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
Of course it's not, you asked for the crontab file, not for the daemon one.
Cron is launched by the /etc/init.d/crond daemon, which reads all the
configuration in /etc/crontab, including of course the daily one, the hourly,
weekly and stuff...
Manuel: I want to thank you for your patience and professionalism.
Now, I want to apologize for my bothersome exchanges. It's a new day,
and I returned to the beginning one more time. I must have run the
command: #> nano /etc/crontab half a dozen times, each time opening a
file that was empty. This morning, I ran the command one more time, and
this time, the file contained the info you shared with me. Problem
solved. Have added my shell script for jpodcatcher, and all is well.
Again, thank you, my friend. I greatly appreciate your help.
Tom
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