Dear Osamu Please find below our /etc/cron* directories : " [r...@omc-1 root]# ls -la /etc/cron* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 255 Jul 25 09:41 /etc/crontab /etc/cron.d: total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 2 2004 . drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 Jul 26 10:06 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 94 Aug 13 2001 sysstat /etc/cron.daily: total 36 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 2 2004 . drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 Jul 26 10:06 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Sep 2 2004 00-logwatch -> ../log.d/scripts/logwatch.pl -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 276 Jun 25 2001 0anacron -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 51 Sep 4 2001 logrotate -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 402 Aug 31 2001 makewhatis.cron -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 104 Sep 6 2001 rpm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 132 Jun 25 2001 slocate.cron -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 91 Aug 13 2001 sysstat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 193 Aug 29 2001 tmpwatch /etc/cron.hourly: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2001 . drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 Jul 26 10:06 .. /etc/cron.monthly: total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 2 2004 . drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 Jul 26 10:06 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 278 Jun 25 2001 0anacron /etc/cron.weekly: total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 2 2004 . drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 Jul 26 10:06 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 277 Jun 25 2001 0anacron -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 399 Aug 31 2001 makewhatis.cron [r...@omc-1 root]# " We want our new scheduled task to be done at 23:30 every day . Can you please let us know how and where we need to add our new lines ? Regards H.Motamedi
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 06:37:04AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote: > > As you see , the crontab job is functioning correctly but if we try to > > reboot the server we will loose the last entry listed from the "crontab > -l" > > as above , as we have added it through issuing "crontab -e" . Can you > please > > let us know how we can make it as permanent even after reboot ? > > Regards > > H.Motamedi > > Put scripts in one of /etc/cron.*/ directories. It is run under root. > > Osamu >