I am attempting to write a perl script that will log my CPU usage every hour, I have been informed that I should do this will cron. I have read through some of the other posts and they have not help.

I have written a script that gets the information that I need and I have tried to place it into /etc/cron.hourly however it just tells me that I do not have the necessary permissions to write to that location. I understand that if I had root access I would be able to do this but I do not know how to get it. As far as I understand I should have full access as I am the only user on my computer.

Please can someone help.

Thanks

Mark

so the question is really, how do you log in as root? run "su -" in a console and enter the root password. then you can do whatever you want. also though, you don't *need* to put it there, every user can run their own crontab by default, just run "crontab -e" and add your own. you would need to recreate the hourly / daily lark yourself though within your own user directory if you want to use that simple framework.

Thanks for you quick reply. However I do not know how to use crontab at all could you give me some more info or direct me somewhere where I can read up on it please.

i was basically advising you not to use it... just become root and put your script in the pre-created cron.hourly directory

Ah right I see, problem is I dont know how to move files using the console. Could you give me a quick example please.

thanks

Mark