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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!news.sol.net!uniserve!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: [Q] cron jobs Date: 7 Feb 1996 23:11:07 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4fbbib$92v@atlas.uniserve.com> References: <4fa6o9$kkp@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tapehost.uniserve.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 In article <4fa6o9$kkp@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, cjk@omedsrvb.omed.pitt.edui says... >What's the trick to getting a cron job setup??? > >I want to have my entry in the crontabs file execute every night at midnight. >This entry will rotate my netscape logs and looks like this: > > 0 0 * * * /usr/ns-home/httpd-80/rotate > >I placed this entry into the "/etc/crontabs" file and rebooted for it to take >effect, yet it did not execute?? Any ideas??? What is the "/etc/crontabs" file? That isn't used by CRON, if that's what you are thinking. Look at /etc/crontab for the system crontabs. Use the "crontab" command to install individual user crontabs. You don't need to reboot your system. In fact, you should never need to reboot a Unix workstation, once started. You should look at the manpages for crontab Tom