Re: Fwd: Inquiry: How to set the crontab job permanently
Dear Osamu
Please find below our /etc/cron* directories :
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[root@omc-1 root]# ls -la /etc/cron*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 255 Jul 25 09:41 /etc/crontab
/etc/cron.d:
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 2 2004 .
drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 Jul 26 10:06 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 94 Aug 13 2001 sysstat
/etc/cron.daily:
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 2 2004 .
drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 Jul 26 10:06 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Sep 2 2004 00-logwatch -> ../log.d/scripts/logwatch.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 276 Jun 25 2001 0anacron
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 51 Sep 4 2001 logrotate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 402 Aug 31 2001 makewhatis.cron
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 104 Sep 6 2001 rpm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 132 Jun 25 2001 slocate.cron
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 91 Aug 13 2001 sysstat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 193 Aug 29 2001 tmpwatch
/etc/cron.hourly:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2001 .
drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 Jul 26 10:06 ..
/etc/cron.monthly:
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 2 2004 .
drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 Jul 26 10:06 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 278 Jun 25 2001 0anacron
/etc/cron.weekly:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 2 2004 .
drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 Jul 26 10:06 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 277 Jun 25 2001 0anacron
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 399 Aug 31 2001 makewhatis.cron
[root@omc-1 root]#
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We want our new scheduled task to be done at 23:30 every day . Can you please let us know how and where we need to add our new lines ?
Regards
H.Motamedi
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Osamu Aoki
<osamu@debian.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 06:37:04AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote:
> As you see , the crontab job is functioning correctly but if we try to
> reboot the server we will loose the last entry listed from the "crontab -l"
> as above , as we have added it through issuing "crontab -e" . Can you please
> let us know how we can make it as permanent even after reboot ?
> Regards
> H.Motamedi
Put scripts in one of /etc/cron.*/ directories. It is run under root.
Osamu
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