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Old 08-05-2004
Cron in Solaris
Hi,
Im just begining in UNIX and i want to know how to create a CRON schedule to take a file, compact it and copy it by ftp to other computer running Linux.


Thanks alot folks!


Macakongs2099
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Old 08-09-2004
Read the man page for crontab [ $ man crontab ] - it will show you how to schedule/set up a cron job.

As far as doing the compression and ftp, you need to write a script in your favorite shell - also, use the search function on this web site to find other posts that have already done this (see the Answers to Frequently Asked Questions forum where Perderabo's automated ftp is located.
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Old 08-10-2004
Click this link i found it the other day, makes the line for you to put in your crontab by just clicking when you want the process to run
>> Crontab Maker

hope this helps

Mark
 
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