UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I noticed that I do not have the crond daemon in my AIX box. I need to create a backup script to run nightly. Where do I find this daemon?

Thanks

you proberly do have any cron job schedule that the reason cron deamon is not running.

crond starts automatically, when there is a cron job in crontab.
To list jobs in crontab issue this command

Code:

crontab -l

to schedule job to run at 3:10am issue command

Code:

crontab -e

and then add a line, something like:

Code:

10 3 * * * /path_to your_backup_script

cron deamon lives in /usr/sbin/cron but this could be different on your system. crond will start automatically once a job has been schedule.

To find where your cron deamon lives issus command

Code:

find / -name cron 2>/dev/null