Or just edit a plain ol' text file, and then pass it in to the 'cron'
command.
As he said, just do this as a user. Very easy, very flexible.
Eg, make a file like this, called mycron.
10 * * * * /home/myself/bin/ftpget
20 * * * * /home/myself/bin/ftpput
30 11 * * sun /home/myself/bin/cleanup
This does an ftpget at 10 past the hour and an ftpput at 20 past the
hour, every hour, every day, every month.
It also would run a script called "cleanup" every Sunday in the middle
of church services.
Then to use this script, just do
cron mycron
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| Uhh, in my opinion it's best to leave cron.hourly and cron.daily alone. Read the
| manpage; every user can set his own cron up using crontab (editing with crontab
| -e). It's possible to specify time in a very very flexible way there. For
| example: every 5 minutes; every 2nd minute after a quarter of an hour has passed
| by (02;17;32;47), every 14'th day of any odd-numbered month at 16:28, etc...
|
| I could explain everything here, but "man 5 crontab" can do a much better job at
| that than I can without quoting it ;-)
|
| One thing though; crontab -e uses vi as its editor. If you don't know how to
| work with it, there's a workaround: simply type "export VISUAL=joe" at the
| prompt before you do "crontab -e". It then uses joe as its editor. You can set
| whatever you want with it; I just used joe as example beause it's the editor I
| mostly use.
|
| In addtion you might look at "man crontab" and "man cron" for more info.
|
| And uhh... Where's that site? Just out of curiosity :-)
|
|
| On Mar 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| > Hey all.. After a period of inactivity I am back on my work project..
| > I'm really close but have some cron questions.. Here's what I'm doing..
| >
| > I have a linux box running Mdk 6.1.. It has 2 nics. One has a static
| > internet ip address.. The other has an address that is in the range of 2
| > SGI machines and a Solaris machine that are on the tv weatherman's
| > network at work ( tv station ).
| >
| > The idea of this is to FTP .jpg maps to the web site.. I got the mdk
| > box up and running, and using ncftpget and ncftpput, I can get all the
| > maps in a command.. Long ncftp command line, made into a script..
| > Then I chmod a+x'ed em.. So I can "get" all the maps off the SGI Indigo
| > 2 by typing ./ftpget..
| >
| > In turn send em to the web via ./ftpput.. I'm very happy about my
| > progress in this.. I'm a new Linux user and was challenged by the boss
| > to do this.. So all I need to do now is automate this..
| >
| > Using cron.. From what I'm reading, cron can execute scripts.. right??
| > Just like the scripts I created..
| >
| > If I put both ./ftpget then ./ftpput in cron.hourly, it will do this
| > once an hour,, right??? I have also been reading about being able to
| > specify an exact time in cron.. ( this is more wanted, due to certain
| > maps being updated at specific hourly times..)
| >
| > So also in addition to the above, I would like to add rdate --sp
| > time.xx.xx to cron.daily then
| > the systohc stuff.. Both of these need root permission.. Can cron do
| > this?? I'm a little vague on this..
| >
| > Both the ftp commands are exec by user..
| >
| > If someone can help, I would be more than greatful, since I've been
| > working on this for sometime and have learned
| > GOBS about linux.. I just find the man cron a little vague about a
| > number of things..
| >
| > THanks!
| > Alan
| > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| >
|
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