Daniel Jarboe wrote:
> > I need to create a cron job that restores a database from a sql file
> > once per day.
> >
> > Can I do this all in one command or do I need to have a cron job
> call a
> > script that then does the work?
> >
>
>
> Either way will work
If you want to add a job to crontab you can edit it directly via crontab
-e you can view it with crontab -l
I also like to put "MAILTO=<address>" so when they are executed I get an
email (handy for my rsync jobs so I can see the output).
Also,
You should have these folders in /etc :
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 15 09:34 cron.daily
-rw------- 1 root root 11 Nov 25 13:58 cron.deny
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 25 16:49 cron.hourly
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 25 16:49 cron.monthly
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 25 16:49 cron.weekly
You can put your script's in there and they will be executed.
-Chris
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