At Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:15:16 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:47 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > > > > On 11/13/2009 07:21 PM, Larry Brigman wrote: > > >> either write an init script to be added to /etc/rc.d/init.d or > > >> add it to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local > > > > > > It looks, to me, that Victor is at a stage where he does not know what > > > he is doing with the basic stuff - pointing him at good docs might be > > > worth more than spoon-feeding. > > > > I'm a bit rusty. It's been a couple of years since I've run my own server, > and I don't know this OS. And as we all know, each OS is different. I'm > trying to install scripts I wrote years ago to do my MySQL backups. You probably don't want to do your MySQL backups only at boot time. I think what you really need is to look at crontab's documentation. Unless your MySQL backup scripts themselves behave like deamons and do their own cron-like behaviour. There are really only two main flavors of UNIX/Linux boot methods/schools. The BSD school and the SYS V school. *Most* Linux distros (including RedHat's) favor the SYS V school: little scripts in /etc/init.d (or /etc/rc.d/init.d, depending on the vintage), with symlinks in /etc/rcN.d/. The BSD school has a set of scripts for each run level. I *think* Slackware uses this method (just because Slackware likes to be different). > > As for pointing me to the docs, I looked through them but couldn't make > heads or tails of them. Yes, I need to study them, but right now I just need > to get some basic things working so that I can make a little money and put > food on the table :) > > I've loaded my scripts to /etc/rc.d/init.d Now how do I schedule my cron > jobs? Cron job scripts don't go in /etc/rc.d/init.d!. You can (should!) put them someplace else. It does not really matter where (but should be someplace sensable). You schedule them using crontab -- there are TWO manpages you should read: man 1 crontab (using the command to list or edit a crontab file) AND man 5 crontab (format of the entries in the file). Read *both* pages carefully. > TIA, > V > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/