James, First thing is upgrade to a more recent version. Slackware 10.1 was just released, so that would be a good choice.
Second thing, once you create the crontab for the user, crond finds it and executes it. You shouldn't have to do anything special to make it start executing. The only thing I see in the cron man page on my Slackware system that would apply to your situation is crontab -e [user] - edit crontab for user Which you would use to create the crontab file in the first place. Later versions of Slackware do have the /etc/crond.?? Structure, but that is for system tasks that run as root, not for individual users such as you're doing. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Melin Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Cron question I feel as tho I am somewhat cron-tarded. I just don't seem to get it...... Granted this might be because the desktop system I'm using to build the el-cheapo monitor widget is running Slackware version 8..... but that said.... On this system, the cron tabs are in /var/spool/cron/crontabs. I created one for the user ID I am using to do the information gathering, which looks like this 1-59/3 * * * * cd /home/statmon ; status.sh 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null and if I read this right, I needed to fire off crontab -u {userid} to make it work... but it doesn't. The documentation I have is for SuSE, so the whole cron.weekly, cron.daily doesn't seem to be there either. If anyone can beat a clue through this extra thick cranium, I would be delighted. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
