Re: cron, crontab, etc. [CORRECTION]

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@mindspring.com>]

	Subject: Re: cron, crontab, etc.
	Date: Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 10:12:39AM -0400

In reply to:Wayne Topa

Quoting 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

This was pasted incorrectly  /dev/null 2>&1  should have been
                  2>&1 > /dev/null

Sorry about that`
> 
> HTH, YMMV, HAND
> 
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> proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do."
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