Re: [cobalt-users] crontabs on a raq

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It works for me.

When I set up time synchronization with an NTP time server using the RaQ 
web-based interface, it put a file into cron.daily.

I decided I wanted this run hourly; not daily, so I copied it into cron.daily.

Here's the file's contents:

> #!/bin/sh
>
> # NTPdate cron event
> # Configured through the administrative web interface
> # Copyright (C) 1998, Cobalt Networks, Inc
> # All rights reserved
>
> sleep 144
> /usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp-cup.external.hp.com >>/var/cobalt/sauce.log 2>&1

(Don't ask me what the 2>&! means; I have no idea.)

Here's the last five lines from the tail of my /var/cobalt/sauce.log:

>  3 Jan 11:03:25 ntpdate[12525]: adjust time server 192.6.38.127 offset 
> 0.033740 sec
>  3 Jan 12:03:30 ntpdate[12928]: adjust time server 192.6.38.127 offset 
> 0.033004 sec
>  3 Jan 13:03:28 ntpdate[13352]: adjust time server 192.6.38.127 offset 
> 0.034040 sec
>  3 Jan 14:03:25 ntpdate[13782]: adjust time server 192.6.38.127 offset 
> 0.033485 sec
>  3 Jan 15:03:26 ntpdate[14189]: adjust time server 192.6.38.127 offset 
> 0.035255 sec

As you can see, it's running every hour.

Jeff

At 02:53 PM 1/3/00  Luc Schiltz wrote:

> hi,
>
>
> in order to make a program start e.g. every hour, is it enough to put a sh 
> file in /etc/cron.hourly
> in order to make it starting every hour ?
>
>
> thanks
>
>
> Luc

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