Re: cron.daily et al.
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote:
> Paul Seelig wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
> > > > How about a (cron) job, that executed every time the
> > > > machine gets booted and that checks when the cron jobs
> > > > were executed for the last time. If these for were not
> > > > executed for say two days (weeks, months) then they
> > > > get executed regardless the actual hour, day, week of month.
> > > I second this.
> > >
> > It is not so hard actually to change the time settings oneself. Every
> > system administrator should be able to do so. and we are all supposed
> > to be sysadmins, aren't we?
> >
> So please give us a concrete solution.
>
A concrete solution for the aspiring sysadmin is launch "apropos cron"
at a shell prompt which gives as result
crontab (5) - tables for driving cron
cron (8) - daemon to execute scheduled commands
and this shows you which man pages to read. Then just read them and
understand their contents. After that find out where the cron scripts
which are not invoked by "crontab -e" reside on your system and read
and understand them too. You will find that the man pages you read
before already point to the proper places, but you could do as well a
"locate cron" to be sure not to miss anything. If you succeed with all
the aforementioned just adapt them to your needs.
Not so hard actually, is it!?
Regards, P. *8^)
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