Slackware 8 is on there cuz that's what I had lying around - Must be the
mental blocks my mother gave me for christmas, but I've always have had
trouble with Cron.
And I agree, I should upgrade to a newer flavor of slack.
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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
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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.
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