Hi all,
I wanted to schedule some rsync backups and found that CentOS is by default using anacron.
I'm mostly used with the historical cron, but let's follow the progress :-)
- I made a shell script in /etc/cron.daily/dobackup - I made it 755, root.root. - In /etc/anacrontab, START_HOURS_RANGE=21-23 (I kept the other lines unchanged) - When I manually run /etc/cron.daily/dobackup, it runs quietly (no errors)
Where should I check if the task scheduler is setup correctly (logs)?
Must I reload a service (BTW, is it "crond" yet?) after editing /etc/anacrontab?
How to tell that it may launch between 21:00 and 5:00? - START_HOURS_RANGE=21-05? - START_HOURS_RANGE=21-23,00-05? - ...
On 02/27/12 2:29 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
- I made a shell script in /etc/cron.daily/dobackup
- I made it 755, root.root.
- In /etc/anacrontab, START_HOURS_RANGE=21-23 (I kept the other lines
unchanged)
if you want to get picky about when something runs, why not use a regular crontab entry, such as is created with crontab -e ?
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John R Pierce -
Mihamina Rakotomandimby