/etc/cron.weekly ?

shanenin · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 4:10 am Post subject: /etc/cron.weekly ?

if I want to run my emerge sync weekly will this work? I placed this shell script into /etc/cron.weekly

nx12 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 193

The safest way to check is to put this in the cron.hourly.

I'm sure the result willl be the same as in cron.weekly. :wink:

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flyinspirit001 · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 9:51 am Post subject: webmin

if you want a web interface to manage your pc you can install webmin; from there you can manage easily also the crons if you need
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gregcoit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 101

How's that for 2 worthless replies.

The answer is yes, that's supposed to work (it's not for me but that's another story). Cron will then send the output (anything that would normally have been printed to the screen) to the users mail (or dead.letter file if local mail is not set p like most of us).

Hope this helps,

Greg
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shanenin · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 11:24 pm Post subject:

thanks. I foulnd the dead letter at roots home directory. will the next cron job just replace the current dead letter or leave an other?
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gregcoit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 101

I'm pretty sure it appends the new stuff to the bottom of the file - it can get quite big over time if your cron jobs output lots of text (which an emerge sync will do).

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tnt · Veteran Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 1222

how to get rid of output?

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lbrtuk · l33t Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 910

I imagine just change it to

shanenin · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 12:55 am Post subject:

I like the output, this way I no what is happening, or not happening.
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gregcoit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 101

I didn't know this but just found it via a "man 5 crontab":

ecatmur · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 1:48 am Post subject:

man 5 crontab gives you crontab(5); man crontab or man 1 crontab gives you crontab(1). Section 1 is for general commands, 5 is for config files. (2 is for kernel calls, 3 for libc calls, 4 for hardware info, 6 for games, 7 for system info, 8 for sbin commands and daemons).
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gregcoit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 101

ecatmur,

excellent info -thanks!!!!

Greg
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