On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:48:49PM -0300, pvbedu-debian@yahoo.com.br wrote: > I have a perl script that needs to be runned each 30 > minutes, how can I do this? Can I use cron? If so what > would the configuration line would be? The path to the > script is /home/user/doc/id.pl > I'm running a stable sarge. Yes, you'll use cron. To get a job to run at the 1st and 30th minute of every hour, type 'crontab -e' to edit your own cron jobs (but see caveat below), then type 1,30 * * * * /home/user/doc/id.pl The editor for cron files is whatever you've set in your EDITOR environment variable -- emacs or vim or nano or whatever. Caveat: if this job needs to run with root privileges, then you'll need to edit the global crontab in /etc/crontab. -- Stephen R. Laniel steve@laniels.org +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
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