On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 1:12 AM, Teng Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am using vixie cron to maintain my scheduled > jobs. Everything is just fine other than one. I find that > when I use, for example, 0 * * * * /usr/bin/eix-sync to > update the portage everyday, the cron works without any > problem. But I was told by manpage I could still use @daily > instead. So I tried but failed. The system does nothing at > all. It is not a big issue, but I just want to make > sure it has nothing to do with my setting. Furthermore, I > still want to start some program like fetchmail after > reboot. Then I put @reboot in crontab. I also tried, and > failed. Does anybody have any idea about this? > > Best, > -- > Teng Wang > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > There should be a single text file in /etc/cron.daily/ with the command you want to run daily. Like this:
$ cat /etc/cron.daily/esync /usr/bin/esync You also may need to make the file executable, so chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/esync. Mine syncs daily with this command. -- - Mark Shields
