Help with a cron command

phatboyz · 01-18-2005, 03:17 PM

I am setting this up from webmin so that might provied a problem

From /usr/local/notesdata

I need to run /opt/lotus/bin/server

How do I type this command.

twantrd · 01-18-2005, 04:31 PM

I'm assuming you want to run this command via cron right? Become the user that you want to run it as. Then do 'crontab -l' to see what cronjobs are under that user. To edit the crontab, do a 'crontab -e'

* * * * * /opt/lotus/bin/server > /dev/null 2>&1

That's what a cron entry usually looks like. STDOUT will be redirected to /dev/null. (2>&1) STDERR will also be redirected to STDOUT which is redirected to /dev/null.

Do a 'man crontab' or 'man cron' to see what to input for the * * * * *.

-twantrd

phatboyz · 01-19-2005, 11:09 AM

I got it working.

I did a google search on lotus linux startup scripts and it gave me a listing for a startup script for redhat and I just changed what needed editing and it now works fine...