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Old 09-29-2010
Appending new cron entries
Hi,

script has been defined which take the user input for minute,hour,day of month, month and day of week.

Now, how to append the below cron entry to the crontab file ?

0 11 1 7 2 /oracle/oradata/iprsdb/dba_scripts/install_cron_export_gps.sh

which is the main file for crontab on solaris & what is its default location where which we can append the cron entries ?

With Regards
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Old 09-29-2010
you use crontab -e as root - for the system crontab.
You are then in an editor like vi.
insert the entry, and save it.

Each user can have a crontab file. root has one by default - this is the system crontab.
DO NOT try to play with the system crontab file with anything but crontab -e. If you screw it up all kinds of things will stop running.
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Old 09-30-2010
Hi,

can u give one simple example for appending to the crontab file ?

With Regards
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