Re: /etc/cron.d directory

2003-06-12 Thread Michael Mansour
644 resides on the cron file with root owner and root group. Not executable as it's 644. I'd expect it's run as root since I just dropped the file in there (created it in there and set permissions), although a "crontab -l -u root" doesn't show it listed, looking in /var/log/cron it does get loade

Re: /etc/cron.d directory

2003-06-12 Thread Mark Neidorff
Check permissions. Who owns the file. Is it executable? Whose cron is it run from? Mark On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Michael Mansour wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to make use of this directory, as it's my > understanding that cron drop files fro applications > are placed in here and they should be th

/etc/cron.d directory

2003-06-11 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, I'm trying to make use of this directory, as it's my understanding that cron drop files fro applications are placed in here and they should be the same format as those that would normally be placed in /etc/crontab. However I do this, and verify they are successfully loaded in /var/log/cron, y

RE: cron.d

2002-07-29 Thread Ed . Greshko
Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 12:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: cron.d > > > On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, suresh wrote: > > > hi > > i tried that > > basically i am having a script which needs to be run after 5 mins of >

RE: cron.d

2002-07-29 Thread suresh
, July 29, 2002 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: cron.d On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, suresh wrote: > hi > i tried that > basically i am having a script which needs to be run after 5 mins of > bootup(since the script hangs if run during bootup). > I am doing this by addin

Re: cron.d

2002-07-29 Thread Anthony E. Greene
figured file in cron.d before >reboot. In rc.locl, add a command like this: at "now + 5 minutes" command See the "at" man page for details. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3E> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A

RE: cron.d

2002-07-28 Thread Ed . Greshko
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, suresh wrote: > hi > i tried that > basically i am having a script which needs to be run after 5 mins of > bootup(since the script hangs if run during bootup). > I am doing this by adding a dynamically configured file in cron.d before > reboot. > >

RE: cron.d

2002-07-28 Thread suresh
hi i tried that basically i am having a script which needs to be run after 5 mins of bootup(since the script hangs if run during bootup). I am doing this by adding a dynamically configured file in cron.d before reboot. Any other way of doing this ? Thanx Suresh -Original Message

Re: cron.d

2002-07-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 03:11, suresh wrote: > I have configured cron to run a task at a perticular time of the day, but it > runs during bootup as well. I wud wish it runs only at that particular time > irrespective of whether m/c boots or not. > any ideas?? Turn off the "anacron" service? ___

cron.d

2002-07-27 Thread suresh
Hi, I have configured cron to run a task at a perticular time of the day, but it runs during bootup as well. I wud wish it runs only at that particular time irrespective of whether m/c boots or not. any ideas?? Thanks in advance. Suresh ___ Redhat-lis