Re: Vixie Cron

["Richard Zimmerman" <Richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >    Can someone point me to a good cron reference? I need to learn how to
> > setup cron jobs to run at specific times during the day.
>
> At the risk of sounding like a RTFM answer, these are my favorite
references:
>
>   man crontab
>   man 5 crontab

   OK, man 5 crontab gave me what I was looking for.... wasn't aware of the
man 5 part.... (reading man man) Ah! That's what the numbers after the
command mean..... DOH! Learn something new everyday!

> >    Also, I've got a number of cron.daily jobs listed in /etc/cron.daily.
The
> > first job that run is backup.cron which is a 'dd' job that mirrors my
Linux
> > box to the Novell server as a backup. I've been noticing that the other
jobs
> > in /etc/cron.daily are NOT getting run. Is there a time limit that cron
will
> > try to run a job listed in /etc/cron.daily?
>
> Don't screw around with those and create a real crontab using the
> "crontab" command.

   Will do....

   Thanks!

   Goose