[ubuntu-za] cron tutorial or Ubuntu 7.04

[Henti Smith]

On Friday 17 August 2007 09:20:00 Herman Gouws wrote:
> >On Friday 17 August 2007 08:00:35 William Kinghorn wrote:
> >> Hi Jason,
> >>
> >> I am trying to run a debmirror script to update my mirror.
> >>
> >> I am wanting to run the script as root at midnight everyday.
> >
> >crontab -e
> >59 * * * * /usr/scripts/mirror_ubuntu.sh
> >
> >also see
> >
> >man 5 crontab
>
> Shouldn't that be 59 23 * * * /usr/scripts/mirror_ubuntu.sh ?
>
> As written above the script would run once per hour.
>
> Also, to add it to root's crontab, use
>
> sudo crontab -e

You're right ... sorry .. not thinking .. way to early in the morning .. ;P 

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