[olug] cron

[mesc]

Ok I believe I  have it finally.......this is in crontab -l and
/etc/crontab..... 0 * 14 * * 0 /usr/bin/updatedb........so  updatedb will
run every sunday at 2pm right?


                    Thanks again,Gary Martin



Dave Burchell wrote:

> mesc says:
> >
> >     I'm making headway with cron,I have it running but it's not  right
> > yet.I have updatedb set to run once a week yet  my HD light is  on
> > constantly so I checked ps aux and this was in there repeatedly..
>
> > * * * * 0 /usr/bin/updatedb
>
> What you have will run every minute on Sundays, right?
>
> If you want it to run once a week, pick the time of day and put that in.
> For example:
>
> 0 1 * * 0  /usr/bin/updatedb
>
> will run updatedb once a week at 1:00 am Sunday.
>
> For religious reasons, I give my machine Sunday off, but expect it to
> be hard at work at seven Monday morning:
>
> 0 7 * * 1 /usr/bin/updatedb
>
> I always forget to watch Futureramma; this could help:
>
> 0 18 * * 0 /usr/local/bin/bender_me_softly
>
> "bender_me_softly" should be a script to use X10 to turn your TV on to
> Fox 42.
>
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