[Sussex] Regular scheduled jobs?

[John D.]

On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 17:59 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 05:52:50PM +0100, John D. wrote:
> > All I have to do now is to work out how to use it!
> 
> man 5 anacrontab

bash-2.05b$ man 5 anacrontab
No entry for anacrontab in section 5 of the manual
bash-2.05b$ man anacrontab
No manual entry for anacrontab
bash-2.05b$ man anacron
No manual entry for anacron
bash-2.05b$ man man
Formatting page, please wait...

[1]+  Stopped                 man man
bash-2.05b$

So maybe I'm not looking at the same man pages ??? Though there seems to
be entries for cron and crontab (which I don't understand).

> 
> Oddly enough, it's not disimilar to format of /etc/crontab which I have
> already described.  IIRC, you wanted something weekly:
> 
> 7   10  cron.weekly     nice run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly
> 
> All you would need to do then, is drop a shell-script into
> /etc/cron.weekly, and it would get run along with any other scripts
> already placed there.

You are probably "spot on" Thomas, but I "fall over" immediately, as I
wouldn't recognise a shell script, unless it walked up and tapped me on
the shoulder! (rather like most things "linux").

I did find a howto at
http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html for cron, but
again, I get lost as soon as the "technoblurb" starts!

Thanks for the pointer though, efforts toward my "linux education" are
always very much appreciated!

regards

John D.