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I installed linux myself, I'm logged on as root. My os is linux 2.6.15-1.2054.
When I tried echo $EDITOR and echo $VISUAL the result was blank. When I typed in the command crontab -l I got 16 4 * *...

One thing at a time. I tired putting it in a script that didn't work. So I'm trying to get this to work just to see if I'm even doing it right. When I get this to work I'll work on the script. There...

I'm still trying to get the auto backup to work. I'm in the shell prompt and I've typed

crontab -e 11 05 * * * mysqldump -u ruth -ppassword -h localhost world > /home/ruth/backup/world_try
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Can you point me to a good reference that describes how to get scripts to work with cron. I haven't found one that works yet. I know you make a file usin vi editor but getting cron to execute it well...

I'm using fedora 5 and sql 5.0. I'm trying to edit the crontab to perform automatic backups of my database. For some reason it isn't working. Here is what I have so far.

15 2 * * *...