Victor Subervi wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:47 PM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx > <mailto:m.roth@xxxxxxxxx>> 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. > > 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? Drop them into /etc/cron.daily (or hourly, weekly, or monthly). Or for a bit more control, try "crontab -e" as the user the scripts should run under. "man 5 crontab", for the crontab file syntax. -- Bowie _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos