Re: [SLE] crontab

From: Paul W. Abrahams (abrahams_at_acm.org)
Date: 10/16/04

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 22:08:45 -0400

    On Friday 15 October 2004 7:46 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
    > * Donald D Henson <wepin@wepin.com> [10-15-04 18:43]:
    > > I have a simple problem that I'm sure has a simple answer but I don't
    > > seem to be able to figure it out. Where the heck do you put a crontab
    > > that is to run as root? (It's running rdiff-backup nightly.) Any
    > > assistance will be appreciated.
    >
    > in a root shell (ie: as root) issue: crontab -e

    That will work, of course, but I find it more convenient to create a crontab
    in a local file ~/mycrontab (in this case /home/root/mycrontab) and then do:
       crontab ~/mycrontab
       crontab -l # check that it worked

    Paul 

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