Subject: cron, crontab, etc.
Date: Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:07:09PM +0100
In reply to:Patrick Kirk
Quoting Patrick Kirk([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi all,
>
> I want to schedule a command to run updatebd every 6 hours. The man pages
> for cron and crontab don't have any useful info on how.
>
> How do I do this?
>
> Patrick
In /etc/crontab I do this
30 5 * * * root nice -10 /root/bin/dodb 2>&1 > /dev/null
/root/bin/dodb
#!/bin/sh
# Ok lets update the locate database
updatedb --prunepaths='/tmp /proc /cdrom /mnt /var/spool' > /dev/null
2>&1
HTH, YMMV, HAND
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