Re: Vixie Cron

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>    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

>    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.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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