doubts

[Chris]

David Scheidt wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:08:15AM +0530, Anirban Adhikary wrote:
> 
>>Hi guys. This is Anirban. I have a doubt on crontab.The question is
>>
>>how to write a crontabwhich takes the back-up at 11:59 pm daily and every tuesday of the week
>>Hope i will receive the answer soon.
> 
> 
> I don't quite understand what you want.  The format of a line in a
> crontab file is as follows.  There are five columns that specify the
> time to run the job at:
> 
> Minutes  Hours  Day of Month   Month  Day of week 
> 
> 59       23          *          *      *           /path/to/script  
> 
> Would run /path/to/script every day at 11:59 pm.  If what you want to
> do is only run it on tuesday, 
> 
> 59     23		*  *  2   /path/to/script 
> 
> The utility to install crontabs is called crontab.  The format of
> entries is defined in the crontab(5) man page.  'man 5 crontab' will
> allow you to read that.

Also note - in your scripts, have absoulte paths.
IE: if you need to cat the /var/log/auth.log

/bin/cat /var/log/auth.log


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Best regards,
Chris

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