[lug] Chronology settings

[Phil Hildebrand]

You can also use crontab -e from the command line as root.

(will throw you into the default editor).  crontab -l   to get current
listings.


"Ferdinand P. Schmid" wrote:

> That is correct.  In redhat Linux this file is located at:
> /etc/crontab
>
> The format for entries into that file is:
> # "minute" "hour" "dayofmonth" "month" "day of week" "script and shell
> commands go here",
>
> with commands looking like this:
> root /etc/scripts/updateMcAfee
> (that is root is the userID that this job runs as and then your script
> file).
>
> Ferdinand
>
> David Willcox wrote:
>
>> Does anyone happen to know and I know it's probably quite simple. I
>> am tryingto set up (my already tested 'tar backup script' from Unix
>> OS) to be set to use every day at 6:00 AM/. Where and how do I
>> install the date;time;etc. for thisscript to run. In Xenix/Unix it
>> was a crontab file. Thanks ahead for any help on this, Dave Willcox
>> :-)
>
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