Re: Cron and Anacron for newbies (noffle also) Solved (for me at least)

2004-11-30 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > I was wondering if anybody could point me to a faq for cron and anacron? > > Reason I ask is because I am getting into noffle and the doc says to run > an > expire every day. I noticed just such a command on a directory called > /etc/cron.daily/ > > So I also, (in add

Re: Cron and Anacron for newbies (noffle also)

2004-11-28 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 01:45:51PM -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > Well, I hope no news is good news, because I might have a problem elsways. > > I have my mail forwarded to a user account, which I check with kmail. > Since I am receiving no daily reports, does this mean that none of my daily

Re: Cron and Anacron for newbies (noffle also)

2004-11-28 Thread David Mandelberg
If you want to test if the jobs are running, to this: # TMPFILE="`mktemp /etc/cron.daily/test.XX`" # cat > "$TMPFILE" < David Mandelberg wrote: > > >>Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: >> >>>1) how do I verify that one of the jobs in /etc/cron.daily/ ran to >>>successful completion >> >>The output of

Re: Cron and Anacron for newbies (noffle also)

2004-11-28 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
David Mandelberg wrote: > Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: >> 1) how do I verify that one of the jobs in /etc/cron.daily/ ran to >> successful completion > The output of the jobs in /etc/cron.daily/ is emailed to root, so you > just need to set up a mta to forward it to your real address (unless you > alr

Re: Cron and Anacron for newbies (noffle also)

2004-11-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Mandelberg wrote: Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: 1) how do I verify that one of the jobs in /etc/cron.daily/ ran to successful completion The output of the jobs in /etc/cron.daily/ is emailed to root, so you just need to set up a mta to forward it to your real address (unless you already have a wo

Re: Cron and Anacron for newbies (noffle also)

2004-11-28 Thread David Mandelberg
Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > 1) how do I verify that one of the jobs in /etc/cron.daily/ ran to > successful completion The output of the jobs in /etc/cron.daily/ is emailed to root, so you just need to set up a mta to forward it to your real address (unless you already have a working mta config, in