On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Vic wrote:
> >
> > OK coolacious, thanks!!
> >
> > Just to verify (sorry) I put 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * play /Data/wavs/bong.wav
> > in my 0anacron file just like you typed it?
> >
>
> I'm not familiar with the 0anacron part - perhaps someone more
> knowledgeable will remark on that. I've always used crontab to set up
> stuff such as this. As long as 'play' is in your path the rest looks
> right. You might look at...
>
> http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/
>
> ...as there is a blurb about cron there.
>
0anacron is a file in each of anacron's 'do stuff periodically'
directories: /etc/cron.* (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly). In the crontab for
Mandrake 7.1 I found cron executes a 'run-parts' script that searches these
directories and executes the scripts in them in order of directory listing. The
file is only named 0anacron so it gets executed before any other of the
scripts.
To the original poster, the 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * .. etc line goes in the
/etc/crontab file as mentioned. Check out 'man 5 crontab' for a more detailed
description of the way the crontab file is set out. The smallest increment is 1
minute AFAIK.
Tony
