26 Jul
2001
26 Jul
'01
1:43 p.m.
Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
'Lo All, I appear to have sent my box into a timewarp of some kind. I set crontab to run my newly created backup file with
- 12 * * * /home/jenny/backups
AFAICS, yes, it's the crontab timing. This means run it every minute as long as hour==12 every day.
Use: 0 12 * * * ... instead.
You might want to look at anacron; you may find out anacron has actually been set up for you already though.
Alexis (who's had plenty of fun with cron before...) -- mip. mip mip.