I have a crontab set up to fire off my tape back up at night. I want to also have it update files every 15 minutes by running a command. When I write the line into the crontab, it doesn't seem to fire off. I have basically no UNIX background, so if you have any ideas, make sure to treat me like a 6 year old.
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Crontabs not starting edits...
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<grin><br><br>Hi matth,<br><br>what does your crontab -l output look like?<br><br>if it's calling a script - could you post that as well? (unless it's really long - of course) <p>Mike<br><a href=mailto:michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com>michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com</a><br><a href= Cargill's Corporate Web Site</a><br>
Did you use crontab -e to edit the crontab file? If so this will automatically read in the new commands. As you stated that you have little or no unix experience I'd guess that you just edited the crontab file. To get cron to re-read the crontab file find the process number of cron and do a kill -1 of it.<br> <p>Dave Hamilton<br><a href=mailto:dhamilton@gio.com.au>dhamilton@gio.com.au</a><br><a href= > </a><br>
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