What is the best way to modify the crontab file??
Edit the file and then use crontab 'filename' ???
I do not know how to use pico editor - so I cannot modify it this way, Any help is appreciated. (3 Replies)
I saw a post on here a while back describing how to edit a crontab file when I'm not able to edit it via crontab -e.
Currently, if I try to do a crontab -e, it just comes back with:
# crontab -e
7987
<and then it just hangs there FOREVER>
If I do a crontab -l, it shows me all of the... (1 Reply)
hi
i need to change crontab settings as
minute,hour,day of month,month year,day of week
certain times. for that i need to go as crontab -e. i want to avoid that as its creating many problems in mysystem.
so here i m planning/trying to write a script that will update the settings in crontab... (8 Replies)
Hi
I am new to Unix and would like some assistance.
I need to edit the crontab file so that a script is set to run at 3:00 am each day.
When I telnet to the sun server and type crontab -e a black screen appears and I am unable to make any changes.
Could you advice on what is needed to... (11 Replies)
Hi All,
There are some cron jobs scheduled already by someone, now I have to make some changes to the schedule timings. Please advise me.
thanks,
Raju (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to Unix. I have written a script in Unix. I wanted to schedule this script in cronjobs which has to be run daily at 10AM.
Already i have some cron jobs running on my unix server. In addition to these I have to edit the crontab. I know I have to execute the command "crontab -e" to... (9 Replies)
Hi,
Can some one tell me if we can configure the jobs in crontab using a shell script.
I know it can be done easily by using "crontab -e", but i just want to know whether we can add a job into the crontab using a shell script.
If it can be done, plz suggest the procedure to do it.
If it... (6 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I need to edit the crontab on one of my unix systems. When I execute crontab -e, nothing happens, then I get an error '666' and can't type anything else at the cli.
I tried resizing the window, but still got the same error. I'm using the run user and I've checked the permissions on... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I have a solaris 10 box. And I want to schedule a cronjob.But it gives the following error
bash-3.2$ crontab -l
crontab: can't open your crontab file.
bash-3.2$ EDITOR=vi
bash-3.2$ export EDITOR
bash-3.2$ crontab -e
crontab: can't open your crontab file.
I checked in... (12 Replies)
Hi,
I m setting up my crontab for the very first time. I m a non-root user and this is linux
$ export EDITOR=vi
$ crontab -e
no crontab for user1 - using an empty one
crontab: installing new crontab
"/tmp/crontab.uW0JNx":1: bad command
errors in crontab file, can't install.
Do you want... (3 Replies)
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yum-cron
yum-cron(8)yum-cron(8)NAME
yum-cron - an interface to convieniently call yum from cron
SYNOPSIS
yum-cron [config-file]
DESCRIPTION
yum-cron is an alternate interface to yum that is optimised to be convenient to call from cron. It provides methods to keep repository
metadata up to date, and to check for, download, and apply updates. Rather than accepting many different command line arguments, the dif-
ferent functions of yum-cron can be accessed through config files.
config-file is used to optionally specify the path to the configuration file to use. If it is not given, the default configuration file
will be used. It is useful to be able to specify different configuration files for different use cases. For example, one configuration
file might be set to update the repository metadata, and a line could be added to the crontab to run yum-cron frequently using this file.
Then, another configuration file might be set to install updates, and yum-cron could be run from cron using this file just once each day.
FILES
/etc/yum/yum-cron.conf
/etc/yum/yum-cron-hourly.conf
SEE ALSO
yum (8)
AUTHORS
See the Authors file included with this program.
BUGS
There of course aren't any bugs, but if you find any, you should email
the mailing list, yum@lists.baseurl.org, or consult bugzilla.
Nick Jacekyum-cron(8)