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crontab over scp on bash
Hi,
I've got completely stuck...
Only access I have to server is via SSH - I'm using WinSCP3...
So I open a terminal window to edit the crontab entry
crontab -e
but this hangs as I cannot use commands that require user input...
so
crontab 27 4 * * * /var/www/html/lingfield/forums/Database/lingfield_backup.sh
and this errors with no such filename or directory
so...
I guess the next step is to create some vi script to edit the crontab entry...
and do
crontab -e < somescript.vi
but all I try fails (I don't know vi very well...) with
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/var/www/html/lingfield/forums/Database$ crontab -e < crontabsrc.txt
Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal
Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal
[m[m[0m[H[2J[24;1H"/tmp/crontab.XXXXW3szxs" 0L, 0C[2;1H[1m[34m~ [3;1H~ [4;1H~ [5;1H~ [6;1H~ [7;1H~ [8;1H~ [9;1H~ [10;1H~ [11;1H~ [12;1H~ [13;1H~ [14;1H~ [15;1H~ [16;1H~ [17;1H~ [18;1H~ [19;1H~ [20;1H~ [21;1H~ [22;1H~ [23;1H~ [1;1H[0m[24;1H[K[24;1H:i
[24;1H[K[24;1Hcrontab 27 3 * * * /var/www/html/lingfield/forums/Database/lingfield_backup.sh
:wq
Vim: Error reading input, exiting...
Vim: preserving files...
crontab: "/bin/vi" exited with status 1
Vim: Finished.
[24;1H
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any help would be appreciated...
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