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Old 01-28-2010
How to create a crontab
Hi,

I would like to execute a script every 2 minutes, I think cron is the perfect tool for that but I don't know how to use it. Someone could help me ?
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Old 01-28-2010
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Old 01-28-2010
I did some research, but I don't understand how to create a crontab file ... Could you please tell me how to do it step by step ... I did : "crontab -e", wrote in "*/2 * * * * /myscript.sh" but how to save it ?
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Old 01-28-2010
What Operating System are you using?
Are you user "root" or another user? It matters.
Has your Systems Administrator given you unix permissions use cron?


What is the value of these variables:

echo "${EDITOR}"
echo "${TERM}"
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Old 01-28-2010
I'm using OpenSuse 11.2 and I'm Root user. Concerning the variables, how to know it ?
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Old 01-28-2010
In Unix the value of ${EDITOR} is the name of the editor you will use when using the crontab command (usually "vi" - in which case you save with ":wq!").
As this is Linux not Unix, I'll leave the question to a Linux expert.
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Old 01-28-2010
I progressed ! But I still need some help ...
So I created a .cron file containing this :

Quote:
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/home
HOME=/

# canardwc.cron
#Min. Heures Jours Mois JourSemaine
*/5 * * * * /winneuf.sh
I did "crontab /canardwc.cron". That command installed the crontab. Everything seems okay, but the script is not lunched ! Why ?
 
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