[olug] cron

[Vincent]

When you say "This is my crontab file", what do you mean?  Is this the output
from `crontab -l` ?  If not, let's see that.

updatedb takes a while to run because it's basically indexing the contents of
your filesystem onto a database.  That's not something you would want to run
every minute of the hour.

mesc wrote:
> 
>     I'm making headway with cron,I have it running but it's not  right
> yet.I have updatedb set to run once a week yet  my HD light is  on
> constantly so I checked ps aux and this was in there repeatedly..
> root      1723  0.0  0.9  1276  616 ?        S    10:16   0:00 CROND
> root      1726  0.6  1.2  1584  760 ?        S    10:16   0:00 sh
> /usr/bin/updatedb
> root      1733  2.0  0.7  1112  484 ?        D    10:16   0:00 slocate
> -u -l 1 -d /var/lib/slocate/sloc
> I don't even have slocate  in my cron :) This is my crontab
> file                  Modified
> 
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=mescie at home.com
> HOME=/
> 
> # run-parts
> /usr/local/etc/logcheck.sh
> * 14 * * find / -name "core*" -exec ls\
> -l {} \
> #root /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
> * * * * 0 /usr/bin/updatedb
> #* * * * * root run-parts/etc/cron.monthly
> # Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line
> too.
> 0 0 * * *    root    /etc/security/msec/cron-sh/security.sh
> 
> This is  the file generated  by crontab -e...
> 
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.846 installed on Fri Jul 21 09:48:49 2000)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp
> $)
> * * * * * find / -name "core*" -exec ls -l {} \
> 
> * * * * * /usr/bin/updatedb
> 
> * * * * * /usr/local/etc/logcheck.sh
> I know the timestamps is this file aren't right but that's the only way
> I could get anything to run (yes I'm  trying anything....lol)
> 
>             Thank you,Gary Martin
> 
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