> Hi Chris, > > Thanks. man crontab doesn't tell me what the syntax is for a "every 5 > minute" > job though, and that's what I need. Any other ideas ? > > Dee > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Kenrick [mailto:chriskenrick@;yahoo.com.au] > Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 2:39 PM > To: W.D.McKinney > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Howto add a crontab job ? > > > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 02:18:45PM -0900, W.D.McKinney wrote: >> >> I am new to debian and wondered what's the best way to add a >> job for crontab (indexmaker for mrtg) ? > > Write a short shell script to do what you need, looking something like > > #!/bin/sh > mrtg dosomething > > and put the file in /etc/cron.daily (presuming you want it run once a > day). > > Or, if you want it at a certain time, or whatever, use man crontab to > see the file format, and edit /etc/crontab > > HTH > > - Chris > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos > http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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