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On Thursday 29 August 2002 08:40 pm, Desmond Lee wrote:

> I have 2 script, one to do a back up and another to run a virsu scan on
> 2 folders. I've scheduled them to run every sunday in my /etc/crontab
> file.
>
> This is what i got in my /etc/contab file:
> [dlee@142 etc]$ vi crontab
>
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=root
> HOME=/

> 00 2 * * sun /root/scripts/virusScan.sh
> 00 1 * * sun /root/scripts/backup.sh

The /etc/crontab file works a little differently. You need to specify the 
user the command should be run as. 

Perhaps:
# Run virus scan at 2:00 AM every Sunday.
0 2 * * sun root /root/scripts/virusScan.sh
# Run backups at 1:00 AM every Sunday
0 1 * * sun root /root/scripts/backup.sh

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