Hi all,
A friend of mine accidently erased all crontab entries by typing crontab -r.
Can anyone pls. help me on this.
Is it possible that a backup file is available other than files from the backup tape. Or is it retrievable ???
Thnx,
MK (6 Replies)
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Friends,
Please help.... (5 Replies)
So I'm having a problem with crontab -e. It seems like it should work. And it seems like I should know the answer to this question.
$ su -
# echo $SHELL
/bin/sh
# crontab -e
372
Any thoughts? (2 Replies)
hi,
instead of typing crontab -e i gave crontab -r and hit enter. So i lost all my scripts.
Is there any way to restore the deleted scripts?
Please help me out
Thanks
Ajay (3 Replies)
Hi
I have the following code which was supposed to clean up a directory when the number of files in that directory exeeded 2.The code is given below.
#!/usr/bin/ksh
dir_num=`/usr/bin/find /var/.audit -type d | /usr/bin/wc -l`
if
then
oldest_file=`/usr/bin/ls -1t | /usr/bin/tail... (19 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
crond
CRON(8) System Manager's Manual CRON(8)NAME
cron - daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron)
SYNOPSIS
cron
DESCRIPTION
Cron should be started from /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local. It will return immediately, so you don't need to start it with '&'.
Cron searches /var/spool/cron for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron
also searches for /etc/crontab and the files in the /etc/cron.d/ directory, which are in a different format (see crontab(5)). Cron then
wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs, checking each command to see if it should be run in the current minute. When execut-
ing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if
such exists).
Additionally, cron checks each minute to see if its spool directory's modtime (or the modtime on /etc/crontab) has changed, and if it has,
cron will then examine the modtime on all crontabs and reload those which have changed. Thus cron need not be restarted whenever a crontab
file is modified. Note that the Crontab(1) command updates the modtime of the spool directory whenever it changes a crontab.
SEE ALSO crontab(1), crontab(5)AUTHOR
Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
4th Berkeley Distribution 20 December 1993 CRON(8)
02-07-2013
