Travis Forghani wrote: > Kevin, > > According to the Unix book I'm reading, I need to issue the weekday as a > number 1-7. I take it in Linux one can actually put a days > abbreviation? Also if I register the crontab file using the crontab > util via the sudo command, do I need to put root in the command? The > crontab file would also be created by executing gedit using the sudo > command (thus it will be owned by the root user and the root group). > Why do I need to specify the path for the Perl command? The path to > Perl is part of my $PATH env variable. Does cron not look at the $PATH > variable? Finally, what does the -notick option do? Is it a > rebuildspamdb option or is it a Perl option? I know it is a lot of > questions. I just want to make sure I know exactly what the command is > doing. >
You can usually use the day abbreviation to specify the day of the week. I'm not sure if you have to put the 'root' specification in the command honestly. I got that cron entry from one of the how-to articles for ASSP. You should always specify the path to executables you call from cron commands, it's just good practice. The -notick option prevents the rebuildspamdb script from printing the progress bar type 'ticks' when running, it was added especially for cron if i remember right. Also if you do not want to receive mail just turn off ASSP, don't kill the whole nic, that seems like massive overkill to me. Kevin P.S. Could you lose the huge sig when posting btw? I think the internet knows who you are already. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
