On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:41:45PM -0600, Damian Menscher wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, sc wrote:
>
> > I'm having troubles getting my backups automated. I set up a file "test"
> > in the cron.d directory with the settings...
> >
> > 5,10,15 * * * sunkcost /bin/tar -cf /home/sunkcost/test.tar
> > /home/sunkcost/test.txt
> >
> > I thought that cron was supposed to check through its crontab and related
> > files every minute or so, but nothing happens. I tried restarting cron
> > manually, root as the user, and editing crontab directly, but no dice.
> >
> > I'm probably missing something really obvious for what seems like a
> > straightforward setup, but I'm stuck. Can somebody give me some help
> > here?
>
> man crontab
>
> You're supposed to use the crontab command to modify cron
> settings. Updating files by hand won't work.
for /etc/cron.d ?
afaik crontab can only update user's crontab, not systemwide
like the files in /etc/cron.d, they are just processed by cron
periodically.
part from 'man 8 cron' :
DEBIAN SPECIFIC
cron treats the files in /etc/cron.d as extensions to the
/etc/crontab file (they follow the special format of that
file, i.e. they include the user field). The intended
purpose of this feature is to allow packages that require
finer control of their scheduling than the
/etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} directories allow to add
a crontab file to /etc/cron.d. Such files should be named
after the package that supplies them. Files must conform
to the same naming convention as used by run-parts(8):
they must consist solely of upper- and lower-case letters,
digits, underscores, and hyphens. Like /etc/crontab, the
files in the /etc/cron.d directory are monitored for
changes.
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I cleaned up the root partition and now there's lots of free space.
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