Dwain, On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 19:52 -0500, dwain wrote: > Subject: Re: [opensuse] writing a crontab and don't know where to put it > Date: Tuesday 10 April 2007 02:14 > From: Magnus Boman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > > Yhea, it's good fun to be able to control the OS instead of the OS > controlling you :-) > > Kind of, but I can't create the cron tab with: > crontab -e 27 4,16 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl -cron > > When I did a crontab ls -l it returned no crontab for root. When I do > crontab -e it appears to open an editor. I paste the above code it doesn't > add the numbers or "*". I also find no way to save the crontab.
You are suppose to type (as root); "crontab -e" (without the quotes), then hit enter. This will start the VI editor with root's crontab. You then press INSERT and then type; 27 4.16 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl Then hit enter, hit ESCAPTE, then type; :wq (then hit ENTER) Or simply go with the "ln -s" line that I wrote in another email. It'll put them in the system's crontab. > Please help me tame this snarling beast so I can update automatically f-prot. > > Cheers, > Dwain Cheers, Magnus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
