[CentOS] Centos 6.2, sheduled tasks (cron)

2012-02-27 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, I wanted to schedule some rsync backups and found that CentOS is by default using anacron. I'm mostly used with the historical cron, but let's follow the progress :-) - I made a shell script in /etc/cron.daily/dobackup - I made it 755, root.root. - In /etc/anacrontab,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.2, sheduled tasks (cron)

2012-02-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/27/12 2:29 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: - I made a shell script in /etc/cron.daily/dobackup - I made it 755, root.root. - In /etc/anacrontab, START_HOURS_RANGE=21-23 (I kept the other lines unchanged) if you want to get picky about when something runs, why not use a regular