Just looking at the "man rsync".
Might as well be duagnosing a plattypus.
I have made a dir on my Cent samba shares to setup a local fedora.repo
(1) How do I get it to run weekly at a certain time. is this correct?
crontab -e 22 7 0 0 /usr/bin/rsync -va /Fedora-Mirror /local samba share.
(2) Trying to get cron it run 10pm every saturday night. Log whats happening. update packages, include new packages. Exlude extra languages from things like openoffice\xorg etc.. that the family don't need. (family lan)
(3) Would one normally download the mirrors "repodata", or run create createrepo oneself?
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Frank Murphy Sent: Sunday, 22 June 2008 9:38 PM To: CentOS User-List Subject: [CentOS] Rsync + crontab centos5.1
Just looking at the "man rsync".
Might as well be duagnosing a plattypus.
I have made a dir on my Cent samba shares to setup a local fedora.repo
(1) How do I get it to run weekly at a certain time. is this correct?
crontab -e 22 7 0 0 /usr/bin/rsync -va
This is what I added to the top of my /etc/crontab file to remind me what goes where: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/
# * * * * * 'command to be executed - preceed with a usersname (such as root) # | | | | | to run command as that user' # | | | | | # | | | | +----- day of week (0 - 6) (0 = Sunday) # | | | +------- month (1 - 12) # | | +--------- day of month (1 - 31) # | +----------- hour (0 - 23) # +------------- min (0 - 59)
# an asterix (*) in any field matches all values. # To create a periodic event, use */n where n is the required period. # For instance, to run a command every 5 minutes, do the following # */5 * * * * 'command to be executed'
Hope it helps clean the issue of setting up a cron job. As for rsync, maybe I'll know better when I'm done setting up a cluster system which I'm in the middle of.
Cheers, AK.