crontab

maooah · 06-09-2008, 12:48 AM

Dear all

i did fresh installation of Linux Advance Server 4 , now i would like to schedule a job in crontab , do i need to setup any files or what should i do to make crontab work

Regards

trickykid · 06-09-2008, 12:55 AM

Usually by default crond is setup to run by default. Just make sure it's running and edit your users crontab by invoking crontab -e

maooah · 06-09-2008, 01:02 AM

hi tricky

so you want to me to make sure first crond is working , if its working fine then i can schedule job by using cron editor

thanks for your reply

Regards

trickykid · 06-09-2008, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by maooah

hi tricky

so you want to me to make sure first crond is working , if its working fine then i can schedule job by using cron editor

thanks for your reply

Regards

Yeah, I'd see no reason why it wouldn't work or startup. I don't recall ever seeing issues with crond.