On Wed, 22 May 2002 06:01:14 +0100, Troy May wrote: > A friend of mine has a task he wants to do daily, so I told him to check > into cron but he said he doesn't have it. His server is running RedHat > 6.1 Cartman. I've never used cron before but I'm assuming that it is > not available to him from what he said. Is there an alternative to cron > for servers that do not have it? > > He needs to have a data file erased the first time it is wrote to every > day. But the rest of the day it will just append to it as normal. I > thought of cron right away, but now I'm stuck since he can't go that > route. Any ideas?
You friend is almost certainly wrong. cron has been a standard part of Unix (and Linux) for many years. My experience of RH Linux goes back to 4.2 and every version has included cron. Try running ps -ef | grep crond to ensure that the cron demon is running. Then try man crontab to get instructions on how to use cron. hth, Dave... -- .sig missing... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
