Hi Karel
Analog has run OK according to cron.daily, but the logs are not rolling
over! The only messages e-mailed to me are Analog warnings concerning
empty reports e.g. Empty Search Word Report.
Would you mind if I mailed you off-list concerning this?
Best regards, Brian
> Hi Karel
>
> > The answer to both of these questions is the /etc/crontab file. You are
> > correct, cron does check every minute to see if there's something to run
> > in the various crontabs (user and system). /etc/crontab, the system file
> > (as it were), indicates which time of day/month/etc to run each of the
> > "parts" in the various cron.X directories. Mine's set to 4:00am for the
> > cron.daily contents. YMMV, as always.
> >
>
> Got it! At last!! I couldn't find any info on the format of the crontab
> file but a colleague of mind has passed this on from Novell's docs.
>
> # 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
>
> Therefore my cron.daily is also set to run at 04:02 each day. Will let you
> know if it works tonight...
>
> Thanks for all your help, Brian
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