Hi - I'm a relative Linux newbie (SuSE 8.0); but I use cron's.
All I do (as root) is move _any_ type of script into one of: /etc/cron.hourly /etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.weekly /etc/cron.monthly and it works. Now this is system-wide; I have no idea how to set up crons for individual users. I'm sure someone will chime in soon... Test it by making some silly script like: #!/usr/bin/perl $now = localtime; `echo $now >> some_file_wome_where`; and chmod 755 and move it to /etc/cron.hourly. Wait a few hours and check the results... Aloha => Beau. -----Original Message----- From: folschette [mailto:christofol@;design.lu] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 9:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: check for update hi, i have written a program that indexes multiple websites(~50), to build a search-engine for each site. but now the problem: i want to check for updates every day, and if there was a chagne in one site, reindex my website, how is this possible, i have heard in previous messages about crontab, but don't know what it is exactly. Have read the manpages but they don't help me much! are there other possibilities in perl.? christophe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
