On 02/22/2012 03:44 PM, rara8avis@xxxxxxx wrote: > Try two digit numbers: 00 03 * * * and is your directory /etc/cron-daily or > /etc/cron.daily? > it's dcron, and on my box the updatedb file is in cron.daily: 17:48 providence:~/tde/bld/trinity-tqtinterface> l /etc/cron.daily/ total 36 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 09:31 . drwxr-xr-x 111 root root 12288 Feb 22 15:13 .. -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 51 Sep 28 01:01 logrotate -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 807 Mar 8 2010 man-db -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 115 Feb 8 07:20 pkgfile -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 96 Dec 3 19:14 shadow -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 654 Mar 26 2010 updatedb The root crontab file I have has the following ID definitions: <quote> # root crontab # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE MANUALLY! USE crontab -e INSTEAD # man 1 crontab for acceptable formats: # <minute> <hour> <day> <month> <dow> <tags and command> # <@freq> <tags and command> # SYSTEM DAILY/WEEKLY/... FOLDERS @hourly ID=sys-hourly /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly @daily ID=sys-daily /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.daily @weekly ID=sys-weekly /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.weekly @monthly ID=sys-monthly /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.monthly # DCR specific root crontabs from '/root/cron/<filename> 0 5 1 * * /root/cron/cron-monthly 0 3 * * * /root/cron/cron-daily </quote> I haven't messed with the file other than to add the last two lines. Do I need to change the ID lines as well? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
