From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Sep 28 17:10:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66C7C37B422 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:10:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 690C6328D; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:34:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF86328C; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:34:39 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:34:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Peter Salvage Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cron assistance please In-Reply-To: <021e01c02959$555d9b40$0200a8c0@ait.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Please ask questions in -questions... -newbies is not the place to do so. You'll get more answers, and they'll be more accurate. Rick On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Peter Salvage wrote: > Hi all > > Could someone please assist me with the following? > > I want to cycle the mailog of exim every day, just after midnight, after > first emailing it to someone. > > Using man 5 crontab, I saw various examples of how to set that up, and > there's a script in /usr/exim/bin called exicyclog that will take care of > that side of things. > > Where I am hopelessly confused, is how do I er...well...call cron to tell it > to execute the script??? > > TIA > /wiZZ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message