Re: [cobalt-users] cron.hourly

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

fastmedia wrote:

> if i put a symlink to a script in the cron.hourly directory, will it run
> hourly?  do i need to lodge a crontab, or so?  or will cron look in
> cron.hourly automatically?

Scripts in cron.hourly will run automatically, every hour.

For example, because I like to synchronize the times on all my servers
hourly, I slightly modified a copy of the ntpupdate script in
cron.daily, and put it into cron.hourly.

Here it is (note that you may not get good results from the nameserver
I'm using):

#!/bin/sh

# NTPdate cron event
# 
# ntpupdate.hourly
# 
# modified by Jeff Lasman (nobaloney.net) 07/23/00
# for RaQ3
# modified from /etc/cron.daily/ntpdate.auto
# this file should be installed chmod 700 chown root:root
# in directory /etc/cron.hourly
# 
# Copyright (C) 1998, Cobalt Networks, Inc
# All rights reserved

sleep 123
/usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp-cup.external.hp.com >>/var/cobalt/sauce.log 2>&1
/sbin/clock -w -u >>/var/cobalt/sauce.log 2>&1
rm /etc/adjtime
/sbin/clock -w -u >>/var/cobalt/sauce.log 2>&1
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