Crontab
Brian Hessee
gasp at runbox.com
Thu Jan 17 07:58:47 PST 2002
> Rodney,
>
> Do not place the file in cron.hourly etc. Instead, edit the crontab
> file for the user to run the perl script as. For instance, if the perl
> script is to be run by user rodney, log-in as, or 'su rodney' then edit
> the crontab file by typing "crontab -e" at the shell prompt. The crontab
> editor is whatever your shell editor variable is, in my case it defaults
> to vi. You must use the "crontab -e" command or some other special
> crontab editor such as kcrontab to keep things from getting goofed up.
> Other than that, the editing is pretty straightforward.
>
> From here you need to edit the file and save it. From there, the system
> takes care of the rest. Details for how to edit the crontab file and
> what the different fields mean are found at "man 5 crontab" I have pasted
> a few examples from some of my system files as examples in hopes that
> they help.
#snip#
crontab -u rodney -e should work as well with out you having to log in as the user
( if your root ) or do any unnecessary typing by having to type in your password
or anything.
yes, i'm lazy enough that i read the man page. but that's on a Sun. YMMV.
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