Sunday, December 16, 2007

How to install cron (crond, crontab)

yum install vixie-cron crontabs
/sbin/chkconfig crond on
/sbin/service crond start

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-autotasks.html#S1-AUTOTASKS-CRON

set default editor for crontab
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano

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