SuSE Cron Question
From: Bill Last Name Omitted (foolishewe_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/20/04
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Date: 20 Mar 2004 14:59:59 -0800
Hi all:
I've got some machines in my lab, and have migrated off Redhat 7.3 on to Suse 9.0
(in part to get around end of life issues, and to fit into the local Uni's
culture of SuSE as our local distro flavor).
So far SuSE has been good, but I'm not quite sure how to automate my backups.
I want to run backups on the morning before every business day.
On Redhat, I created my own cron directory and their cron had a run-parts
that I used to trigger a backup by creating a cron.weeknight directory and
making a script that initiates backups.
# Old Redhat crontab follows
MAILTO=root
# run-parts
# WAM Modified, added week day support and comments on syntax
# We want backups to run overnight, changing tapes on Tuesday-Friday
# Weekly backup tapes are changed on Monday Morning (but run Sunday Morning)
# Minute Hour DayOfMonth Month DayOfWeek User Command
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 2-5 root run-parts /etc/cron.weeknight
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
# End Redhat 7.3 modified crontab
On SuSE, I'm not clear how to create a class of jobs that run at a time
of my choosing, since it seems that cron wants the jobs to be in directories
named cron.{}
The installed SuSE 9.0 crontab looks like:
#Begin Suse 9.0 installed crontab
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/lib/news/bin
MAILTO=root
#
# check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly
#
-*/15 * * * * root test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons && /usr/lib/cron/run-crons
>/dev/null 2>&1
59 * * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly
14 4 * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily
29 4 * * 6 root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly
44 4 1 * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly
#End Suse 9.0 installed crontab
Do I need to hand edit /usr/lib/cron/run-crons to get events scheduled
at a time of my choosing to run, or is there a better technique?
Does YAST have a tool for managing the cron file, or should I run crontab -e?
Thanks:
Bill (Last name omitted to prevent spam)
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