Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-10-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 2 Oct 2023, John Jason Jordan wrote: When I sat down at the computer this morning the gxmessage window was in the middle of the screen announcing that rsync ran at 3am and at 4am to make mirrors of / and ~/ with exit code 0. I had put a dummy file on both partitions before going to bed,

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-10-02 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:22:47 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >I'm just going to have to muddle through and rewrite them. When I sat down at the computer this morning the gxmessage window was in the middle of the screen announcing that rsync ran at 3am and at 4am to make mirrors of / and ~/ with

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-30 Thread David Fleck
--- Original Message --- On Friday, September 29th, 2023 at 6:22 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Names of what? I still haven't found where cron is storing the jobs. > The cron man page is silent on the subject, and online I haven't found > it mentioned yet. It's not /var/spool/cron;

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-29 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:57:35 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Fri, 29 Sep 2023, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> Well, that didn't come out well. In Xubuntu I did 'sudo crontab -e,' >When you want to only look at the crontab contents use `crontab -l' to >list them. I did that as well, and as

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 29 Sep 2023, John Jason Jordan wrote: Well, that didn't come out well. In Xubuntu I did 'sudo crontab -e,' John, When you want to only look at the crontab contents use `crontab -l' to list them. Sparky's crontab is empty, so I can paste in the T-Mobile job from Xubuntu, but it

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-29 Thread John Jason Jordan
>On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:58:41 -0700 >wes dijo: > >>On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 6:21 PM John Jason Jordan >>wrote: >>> >I don't know where those distros keep cron files. >>they are kept in /var/spool/cron. >>But, look first at >>these are different from crontab. each has its own strengths and

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-28 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:58:41 -0700 wes dijo: >On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 6:21 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> >> >I don't know where those distros keep cron files. > > >they are kept in /var/spool/cron. > >But, look first at >> >/etc/; there should be a set of cron directories there; e.g.,

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-28 Thread wes
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 6:21 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > >I don't know where those distros keep cron files. they are kept in /var/spool/cron. But, look first at > >/etc/; there should be a set of cron directories there; e.g., cron.d/, > >cron.daily/, cron.hourly/, cron.monthly/,

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-28 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:13:28 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >I don't know where those distros keep cron files. But, look first at >/etc/; there should be a set of cron directories there; e.g., cron.d/, >cron.daily/, cron.hourly/, cron.monthly/, cron.weekly/. > >Second, use the `slocate' command,

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 28 Sep 2023, John Jason Jordan wrote: My efforts worked perfectly for years, but now I'm migrating from Xubuntu 22.04.3 to SparkyLinux 7.0, and I'd like to migrate cron jobs in the process. SparkyLinux automatically mounts / and /home from Xubuntu, so I can just copy config files from

[PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-28 Thread John Jason Jordan
Several years ago I created a couple shell scripts to make rsync create mirrors of / and /home on another drive installed in the computer. Although it took awhile I created cron jobs to run the scripts every day at 3am and 4am. My efforts worked perfectly for years, but now I'm migrating from