RH8 Question

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 29.08.2004 schrieb Steve Foutty um 1:28:

> Alexander,
> 
>    I just upgraded to fc2, so far I like it. I am having problems with a
> cron job. Can you help me get mrtg to run as a cron every 5 minutes?
> 
>    Thanks,
>      Steve

Steve,

"man 5 crontab" holds the information you need to properly format
crontab entries.

If you run mrtg from the /etc/crontab it would look like

*/5 * * * * root /path/to/thing_to_execute

Maybe followed by "> /dev/null 2>&1" to redirect the output it produces
to electronic nirvana.

If you create a crontab by using "crontab -u USER -e", then the user as
which the cronjob shall run is not part of the instructions line. And
keep in mind that by default cron has not a full path environment set.
So better use absolute paths.

Alexander


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