Comments on: An extremely terse cron intro http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/an-extremely-terse-cron-intro/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kulutusluotot http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/an-extremely-terse-cron-intro/#comment-48091 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:02:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/an-extremely-terse-cron-intro/#comment-48091 I think very few people actively use cron, even if their system uses it for rotating logs etc.

]]> By: aperson http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/an-extremely-terse-cron-intro/#comment-48079 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:40:09 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/an-extremely-terse-cron-intro/#comment-48079 I like rdiff-backup myself.

]]> By: bmc5311 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/an-extremely-terse-cron-intro/#comment-48078 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:32:47 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/an-extremely-terse-cron-intro/#comment-48078 cron + rsnapshot (rsync) = poor man’s time machine.

That’s how I do my backups, hourly, daily, weekly and monthly.

]]> By: Links 14/2/2011: GNU/Linux Education in Valencia, London Stock Exchange Goes Live With GNU/Linux | Techrights http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/an-extremely-terse-cron-intro/#comment-48076 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:27:42 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/an-extremely-terse-cron-intro/#comment-48076 [...] An extremely terse cron intro [...]

]]> By: livibetter http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/an-extremely-terse-cron-intro/#comment-48073 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:21:53 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/an-extremely-terse-cron-intro/#comment-48073 In my opinion, I would recommend `man 5 crontab`, that’s the best source because every cron program may have some differences between them. (I use vixie-cron)

And that’s how I learn about how to get rid of `/usr/bin/foo` or `/home/username/bin/bar`, make them to be just `foo` and `bar`.

PYTHONPATH=”/home/username/lib/python2.5:/usr/local/lib64/python2.6″
PATH=”/home/username/bin:/usr/bin:/bin”

I have these lines before my cron table. Additionally, I have

#Mins Hours Days Months Day of the week

right above cron jobs, tab-separated valued, so I don’t need to double check every I need edit my table.

]]> By: aperson http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/an-extremely-terse-cron-intro/#comment-48072 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:45:21 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/an-extremely-terse-cron-intro/#comment-48072 Actually, I think Ubuntu’s wiki page for cron gives a tad more detail than Arch’s in this case (Though I think Arch’s is clearer to read in some respects).

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto

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