[WBEL-users] cron and crontab

[John winger]

Sharon,

For beginners I always suggest the following. If you look inside your
/etc directory you will find 4 directories called

cron.daily
cron.hourly
cron.weekly
cron.monthly

If you take the script or if you want a command to run create a script
copy it into one of these directories it will run automatically during
one of those durations.

Otherwise the crontab lives in the /etc directory and while not
suggested you may edit it directly.

If you have anymore questions let me know.

john

On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 10:16, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> I started yesterday to use crontab and was suprised to find no GUI for
> crontab [I was looking for kcron, I think thats what its called] so I
> found a program called 'vcron' which I'm now using.
> 
> However, I now find that whatever is put into my cron file, or root's
> cron file in /var/spool/cron is not run by the cron daemon. Is this
> because the daemon is not linked to this place? And if not, how do I get
> the cron daemon to run my crontab please?
> 
> I've never used cron before, so I'm just starting out to learn it here.
> 
> Thank you
> Sharon.
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