From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Sep 29 19:23:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E81E137B502 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slave (Studded@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA72846; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:23:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:23:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n37.san.rr.com To: Peter Salvage Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cron assistance please In-Reply-To: <025601c02960$f49e7b00$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 On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Peter Salvage wrote: > > Use the "crontab" command (man 1 crontab) to edit a user-specific > > crontab or add your script to the /etc/crontab file (= root crontab > > - see man 8 cron for details). > > hmmm I think I see what to do...I create a file in /var/cron/tabs called > "exim" (that's what Exim runs under) containing just this line: > 1 0 * * * /usr/exim/bin/exicyclog > > ...which should call the relevant exim utility. > > Yes? No. Please read the crontab man pages very carefully, then if you're still confused please post a question on freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. Good luck, Doug -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message