In case it's of interest, I find that gnome-schedule is an easy to use GUI for scheduling cron jobs / automatic tasks.
-Carl On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Ken Bloom <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 20:23 -0400, Hai Yi wrote: > > > > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Tony Cratz<[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hai Yi wrote: > > >> this might be too simple a question to ask, however i am doing it > anyway. > > >> > > >> i want to run a cron job to back up the dump files from my database > > >> tables on a weekly basis. I've never set a cron job before. So by > > >> following the "goolge-search" result, I did these: > > >> > > >> I create a text file and add a line to set time, date and my script, > > >> name the file "cronjob.txt" > > >> 59 23 * * * /home/hai/Scripts/backup.sh > > >> > > >> from CLI: crontab cronjob.txt > > >> confirm the job: crontab -l > > >> > > >> then I sat tight waiting for the magic moment. Nothing happened. > > > > > > What do your logs show? > > > You have read your logs correct? > > kind of embarrassment, where to look? > > > > Cron emails you the output from any cronjobs that produced output > (including errors). Depending on your mail configuration, you'll find > the mails in /var/spool/mail/$USER, and you can check them with the mail > command or using mutt. > > (If mutt is configured already for checking other mail, make sure that > your .muttrc has a mailboxes line with the path to your local mail spool > in it. Then you can use mutt -y to view your mail.) > > --Ken > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- Carl Boettiger Population Biology, UC Davis http://two.ucdavis.edu/~cboettig
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