That's cool, I see your point... I should have mentioned that I didn't actually modify /etc/crontab I give the following command as root user:
crontab cron_script where cron_script is my text file containing the code I provided earlier...this is typicially how I assign a cron job for regular users on the solaris box I sometimes work on, but I've never tried it for root on either linux or solaris... I'll edit the /etc/crontab file as you indicated...thanks for your help Michael. Kevin Michael Fratoni wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 08 June 2002 01:03 pm, Kevin Weslowski wrote: > > here's what I've loaded into root's crontab: > > > > ========================================== > > > > # min, hr, date > > 50 10 * * * ntpdate -s time-nw.nist.gov > > # > > > > ========================================== > > /etc/crontab is not the root users crontab, and thus behaves a little > differently than a user's crontab. When using /etc/crontab, you have to > specify the user the operation should run as. For the command above, > something like: > 50 10 * * * root ntpdate -s time-nw.nist.gov > > It should then honor the variables defined in the config file. > > I use a similar entry: > 30 */2 * * * root /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u 192.168.0.5 > /dev/null > Which updates the time (to a local ntp server) every 2 hours on the half > hour. All output, except error messages, is sent to /dev/null > > Hope that helps, > - -- > - -Michael > > pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt > Red Hat Linux 7.2 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ > - -- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAj0CSawACgkQn/07WoAb/Ss3mACeMzIq9HYuASYjjlsE95t6NSaj > 9CEAn0cxIHAKi5CPl/hzilhMLL4JvXp3 > =IoJl > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
