On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:06:54 -0500, Lansing, Dan <Dan.Lansing at AndersenCorp.com> wrote: > I have 2 poorly written scripts that I would like to have run every day > at around the same time....how can I write another script to make this > happen? I don't use X so I cant use any of those fancy scheduling tools > I'm sure they have.....any ideas? > cron - check the man page but it goes something like this: "cron -e" (no quotes) to edit your crontab file which is where you schedule things... here's the header I keep in my crontab file so I remmeber the order to put stuff: # Never leave a blank line in this file # Each crontab line has six fields: # minute (0-59) # | hour (0-23) # | | day of the month (1-31) # | | | month of the year (1-12) # | | | | day of the week (0-6 0=Sunday) # | | | | | Commands #45 * * * * /files0/backup_area/backups.ksh 2>&1 >> /tmp/backups.log > Dan Lansing > ITSC > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list