Cron jobs setup

[Joseph E. Maxwell]

Thanks, timing corrections made - but the MAILTO "the other user", still 
up in the air - any ideas on this?

John Brooks wrote:

>you probably already know this, but just in case...
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>the command to edit a crontab is:
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>  crontab -u whoser -e
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>(assuming that your user is named "whoser")
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>--
>John Brooks
>john at day-light.com 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-freebsd-database at freebsd.org
>>[mailto:owner-freebsd-database at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Andy Harrison
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 8:08 AM
>>To: Joseph E. Maxwell
>>Cc: freebsd-database at freebsd.org
>>Subject: Re: Cron jobs setup
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>>On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:12:09 -0800, Joseph E. Maxwell
>><jemaxwell at jaymax.com> wrote:
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>>>I am setting up a cron job to run a shell script at 1 hr 
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>>interval and to
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>>>have the output of the script sent to a user. I have this 
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>>in the cron
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>>>file inserted by crontab
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>>>    cat /var/cron/tabs/whoser
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>>>        # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
>>>        # (cron_reg installed on Fri Dec 24 18:13:01 2004)
>>>        # (Cron version -- $FreeBSD:
>>>        src/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.c,v 1.12.2.4 2001/06/16
>>>        03:18:37 peter Exp $)
>>>        0       1       *       *       *
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>>/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/pam2deb.shl
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>>>        MAILTO=user
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>>Reread the crontab manpage.  0 1 * * * doesn't mean once per hour, it
>>means that it will run every day at 1AM.  If you want once per hour, I
>>believe you can do */60 * * * *
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>>-- 
>>Andy Harrison
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