Re: cron, crontab, etc.

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@mindspring.com>]

	Subject: cron, crontab, etc.
	Date: Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:07:09PM +0100

In reply to:Patrick Kirk

Quoting Patrick Kirk(patrick@kirks.net):
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to schedule a command to run updatebd every 6 hours.  The man pages
> for cron and crontab don't have any useful info on how.
> 
> How do I do this?
> 
> Patrick

In /etc/crontab I do this
30 5 * * *      root nice -10 /root/bin/dodb 2>&1 > /dev/null

/root/bin/dodb

#!/bin/sh
#  Ok lets update the locate database

updatedb --prunepaths='/tmp /proc /cdrom /mnt /var/spool' > /dev/null
2>&1

HTH, YMMV, HAND

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Wayne T. Topa <wtopa@mindspring.com>