[wdvltalk] Re: cron question

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 23:37, Bj wrote: - Original Message - From: David Precious As a quick Aside, if you're running Gentoo Linux, it has three directories in /etc called cron.hourly, cron.daily and cron.monthly Indeed, although it's not limited to Gentoo. Slackware (the

[wdvltalk] Re: cron question

2003-12-18 Thread David Precious
Hi Bj, Just had a look, and indeed I can see them on the ISP's (Red Hat) server, and there are quite a few system jobs in there. Sadly the hosting company must be learning about security, owner of the folders is root and the permissions are rwxr-xr-x so no chance for me to sneak a job in

[wdvltalk] Re: cron question

2003-12-17 Thread David Precious
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:14 am, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: As a quick Aside, if you're running Gentoo Linux, it has three directories in /etc called cron.hourly, cron.daily and cron.monthly Any scripts put in these dirs will automatically be run by cron at the appropriate time...

[wdvltalk] Re: cron question

2003-12-17 Thread Bj
Hi Matt As a quick Aside, if you're running Gentoo Linux, it has three directories in /etc called cron.hourly, cron.daily and cron.monthly Any scripts put in these dirs will automatically be run by cron at the appropriate time... Nice thought - but I'm putting this solution on the (RH7) ISP

[wdvltalk] Re: cron question

2003-12-16 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
As a quick Aside, if you're running Gentoo Linux, it has three directories in /etc called cron.hourly, cron.daily and cron.monthly Any scripts put in these dirs will automatically be run by cron at the appropriate time... HTH, Matt On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 09:28, Bj wrote: - Original Message

[wdvltalk] Re: cron question

2003-12-13 Thread Bj
- Original Message - From: Abigail Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use shell scripts when I want to run multiple jobs at the same time. So, for example, I have a cron job like this: # DAILY JOBS: 02 01 * * * $HOME/etc/cron-daily.sh cron-daily.sh has all sorts of jobs listed - it

[wdvltalk] Re: cron question

2003-12-12 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Friday, December 12, 2003, 4:46:04 PM, Bj commented: B Anyone who's used cron - is there a problem with scheduling more than one B job to run at the same time? (more than one entry with 0 0 * * *). Should B I be staggering the start times? I don't think that it should be for a job that is