crontab help
François Patte
Francois.Patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr
Sun Aug 29 04:25:16 UTC 2004
Selon Steve Foutty <steve at foutty.org>:
> I'm new to Fedora and would like a little help with crontab. I have a fresh
> install and have just configured mrtg for monitoring a few devices. I tried
> to follow the documentation for crontab but can't seem to get it right.
>
> How do I put mrtg into crontab so that it runs every 5 minutes..
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
crontab -e
then put these lines (the text editor is vi):
SHELL=/bin/sh
5 * * * * /path/to/mrtg
man 5 crontab gives many details on the syntaxe and some examples.
--
François Patte
Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient - Pune - Inde
Université René Descartes - Paris 5
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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