Rial Juan 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.
>
Thanks.. Somehow I missed the man 5 crontab.. I read the cron mans and
it just left a lot to be desired..
Anyway, this morning after reading, I decided to goto Rufus and look for
a GUI cron editor. ( I figured, there HAD to be one.. ).. Sure enough
there was..
Edited the user cron ( which I didn't knew existed until this morning )
and walla, my Linux box is ftp'ing it's butt off once and hour!!
Works fine. Has been running since 1:00PM and I just checked, sent an
updated map at 9:08PM.. :))))))
Thanks to EVERYONE in the past who has responded.. I'll tell you one
thing, I sure learned a LOT doing this project, involving networking ( 2
nic's in machine ), firewalling, gateways, writing script files.
I could go on.. Anyway EVERYONE is really hyped that I did this,
including the GM... And they all have seen what I did with an OS I
dloaded and burnt a CD.
I have truly impressed a lot of people, not excluding myself, that I
actually pulled this off.. :)
Thanks!
Alan
