Re: [newbie] cron job question

2004-11-26 Thread Chris
On Friday 26 November 2004 03:51 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > Question: How can I send these outputs to /var/spool/mail/chris > > instead of through my isp? > > In /etc/crontab use > MAILTO=chris > instead of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > derek Thanks Derek, after I sent the msg I did some more googl

[newbie] cron job question

2004-11-26 Thread Chris
A little background first. I have a couple of cronjobs setup, one which shutsdown and restarts spamd ever 4hrs. When this happens I get an email telling me it was done. Yesterday I was fooling around with fetchmail to see if I could speed up the process of having mail processed by spamassass

Re: [newbie] cron job question

2004-11-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 26 November 2004 20:41, Chris wrote: > A little background first. I have a couple of cronjobs setup, one which > shutsdown and restarts spamd ever 4hrs. When this happens I get an email > telling me it was done. Yesterday I was fooling around with fetchmail to > see if I could speed up

Re: [newbie] cron job

2002-05-27 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 18 May 2002 16:57, Miark wrote: > I have the following entry in my crontab to run every morning: > > 05 03 * * * tar -czf /backup/`date +%a`_www_backup.tar.gz /www > > But it's apparently _not_ doing it. However > > * Crond is running. > * Other entries in the crontab are being performed

Re: [newbie] cron job

2002-05-19 Thread daRcmaTTeR
> I have the following entry in my crontab to run every morning: > > 05 03 * * * tar -czf /backup/`date +%a`_www_backup.tar.gz /www > > But it's apparently _not_ doing it. However > > * Crond is running. > * Other entries in the crontab are being performed. > * Running the command manually works

[newbie] cron job

2002-05-17 Thread Miark
I have the following entry in my crontab to run every morning: 05 03 * * * tar -czf /backup/`date +%a`_www_backup.tar.gz /www But it's apparently _not_ doing it. However * Crond is running. * Other entries in the crontab are being performed. * Running the command manually works fine: tar -

[newbie] Cron job

2000-09-01 Thread Richard Davies
Hi, I have written the following and I want cron to run it for me. It is in a file called /etc/cron.d/katrina 59 22 * * * root passwd -l katrina 00 23 * * * root halt 00 8 * * * root passwd -u katrina The first line works and locks katrina's password The second line does nothing at all. What