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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Automating Crontab through script?? Post 302739505 by bakunin on Tuesday 4th of December 2012 09:40:54 AM
Old 12-04-2012
You seem to be somewhat miffy because of Neos answer and you have chosen to report his posting. There is absolutely no reason for that.

First off, we are neither your helpdesk nor your consultants. We will help you help yourself, but definitely not do your work for you. Not only, because we are habitually lazy (otherwise we would not put so much effort in avoiding unnecessary work), but also, because you would learn nothing from the experience of being spoon-fed our solutions. We offer learning experiences here, not done work. Once you get to acknowledge this fine difference your miffiness will go away like water under the bridge - i promise.

Another thing is: we are all professionals here, not script-kiddies. Please treat us accordingly and speak to us accordingly. You can talk to us in plain English and we are quite forgiving for people speaking English as a second language, but we don't like to read

Quote:
can u plz
because this way either you come across as not fully grown up (you don't want to earn such a reputation here, do you?) or you are insinuating that we are kiddies you try to accomodate language-wise. I can tell you for sure, we are all grown-ups here and we are used to a businesslike tone of conversation from our professional environments. If your question is not even important for you to go out of your way and add the 2 characters in "you" and the 3 characters in "please" (it is really written with "s", not with "z") why should your question be important enough for us to put in any effort in solving it?

Think about it.

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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)
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