Hello all, Sorry I have not been around much - still planning to be with you when/if I can
Those of you that know me will be aware that I am very much a learner so please excuse these three daft questions I am exploring the use of cron. I have written a script that is three rsync commands that all work on their own. They do a backup of various bit of my data. I have put it in /home/edward/data/scripts and made it executable, and it runs happily from the command line. I now want to use cron to run them automatically. To help out I have installed gnome-scheduler. Seems very simple. I am quiote hapopoy to edit teh cron file manuall, but where is it? I have tried crontab-e and I gret a Qu. 1 Where is the cron file that it creates actually stored? Qu. 2 As soon as I run gnome-scheduler, in syslog, every 9secs or so, I get an entry like this: Nov 11 17:23:17 marvin /usr/bin/crontab[6300]: (edward) LIST (edward) (The number in square brackets goes up each time I deleted the cron entry in gnome-scheduler, and shut it down, but the entries continue to grow. If I reboot the machine, there are no log entries until I re-start the scheduler programme. What is going on here please? Qu 3. The script really needs to be run as root in its final incarnation. Is it OK to drop it in /usr/bin and change its ownership to root? Thanks for your help Ed _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
