Re: using cron

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Hal Vaughan:
> On Thursday 21 April 2005 04:08 pm, brandon wrote:
> > [snip]
> > tar -zcvf /home/brandon/backup.tar.gz2 /etc/fstab /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> >
> > i did a chmod +rwx on it, and placed it in the /etc/cron.daily/ directory.
> 
> You don't put the script itself in the directory.  Actually, you don't touch 
> those directories.  (How would cron know when to run it???) 

/etc/crontab:

 25 6 * * * root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

This how chkrootkit gets run on my box every day.  Brandon's just
missing the shebang (#!/bin/sh) at the top of his script.


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