[BlueOnyx:24203] help with crontab
Meaulnes Legler @ MailList
bluelist at waveweb.ch
Sun Aug 23 13:32:20 -05 2020
hello
I want to install a shell script that runs every day with crontab.
Now I know there is some catch on BlueOnyx for doing that but I didn't jot it down.
[root at vs ~] # crontab -l
returns nothing
[root at vs ~] # crontab -u admin -l
no crontab for admin
[root at vs ~] # crontab -e
edits an empty file
[root at vs ~] # ls -l /etc/crontab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 620 2017.03.28-02:57 /etc/crontab
[root at vs ~] # less /etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
# For details see man 4 crontabs
# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# | .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# | | | | |
# * * * * * user-name command to be executed
04,34 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.half-hourly
03,18,33,48 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.quarter-hourly
46 0,6,12,18 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.quarter-daily
/etc/crontab lines 1-18/18 (END)
So there *is* a crontab file but I can't edit it the normal way... can I just edit /etc/crontab and add my line like
5 4 * * * root /root/myScript.sh # run myScript.sh every day at 04:05
without breaking anything?
Do I have to restart some service?
Thank you and best regards
で⊃ Meaulnes Legler
Zurich, Switzerland
+41¦0 44 260-1660
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