[olug] cron

[Drazak]

I manage my crontabs like this:
crontab -l >cronwork
vi cronwork
(make necessary changes)
crontab cronwork

This way you can save old copies of your crontab if you wish, and easially
back out any changes.

_Drew

On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Vincent wrote:

> mesc wrote:
> > 
> > While attempting to add updatedb to crontab I took the advice of the
> > book redhat unleashed and  entered this command.........crontab -l
> > >/usr/bin/updatedb.....that just overwrote my updatedb file with my
> > core.find file .......* 14 * * * find / -name "core*" -exec ls {}
> > \;.....I've looked for updatedb in the rpm section  of my cd and it
> > doesn't appear to be there.Is there anything I can do to get updatedb up
> > and running again?
> > 
> >                     Thank you,Gary Martin
> > 
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> updatedb is part of findutils-4.*.rpm
> 
> btw, 
> crontab -l	this shows the current crontab entries
> 
> >/path/file	this redirects command output to a file
> 		(in this example), overwriting the file
> 
> >>		same redirect, but it appends data
> 
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