[vox-tech] Fwd: crontab

[Carl Boettiger]

In case it's of interest, I find that gnome-schedule is an easy to use GUI
for scheduling cron jobs / automatic tasks.

-Carl

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Ken Bloom <kbloom at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 20:23 -0400, Hai Yi wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Tony Cratz<cratz at hematite.com> wrote:
> > > Hai Yi wrote:
> > >> this might be too simple a question to ask, however i am doing it
> anyway.
> > >>
> > >> i want to run a cron job to back up the dump files from my database
> > >> tables on a weekly basis. I've never set a cron job before. So by
> > >> following the "goolge-search" result, I did these:
> > >>
> > >> I create a text file and add a line to set time, date and my script,
> > >> name the file "cronjob.txt"
> > >> 59 23 * * * /home/hai/Scripts/backup.sh
> > >>
> > >> from CLI: crontab cronjob.txt
> > >> confirm the job: crontab -l
> > >>
> > >> then I sat tight waiting for the magic moment. Nothing happened.
> > >
> > >                What do your logs show?
> > >                You have read your logs correct?
> > kind of embarrassment, where to look?
> >
>
> Cron emails you the output from any cronjobs that produced output
> (including errors). Depending on your mail configuration, you'll find
> the mails in /var/spool/mail/$USER, and you can check them with the mail
> command or using mutt.
>
> (If mutt is configured already for checking other mail, make sure that
> your .muttrc has a mailboxes line with the path to your local mail spool
> in it. Then you can use mutt -y to view your mail.)
>
> --Ken
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Carl Boettiger
Population Biology, UC Davis
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