How To Use Etc Cron D
The contents of etc cron d 0hourly cause the shell scripts located in etc cron hourly to run.
How to use etc cron d. Etc cron d sysstat rw root root sysstat cron configuration sysstat configuration file is etc sysconfig sysstat. I re scheduled my cron timings but found they were still firing at the previous interval. Mailto on the first line is optional. If you have an old cron then if you copied a. Vim mailto root root touch tmp file.
The run parts program runs all the scripts located in the etc cron hourly directory. Example for job in etc cron d job. Recent cron daemons also examine the timestamps of the individual files in etc cron d but maybe you re dealing with an old one here. That s the reason why is name of the user needed. Login as root create job with preferred editor e g.
The cron job specified in etc cron d 0hourly runs the run parts program once per hour. So i want to edit these and remove the redundant masking lines from the main crontab but the usage for. Older cron daemons used to examine etc cron d for updated content only when they saw that the last modified timestamp of that directory or of the etc crontab file had changed since the last time cron scanned it. Run system activity accounting tool every 1 minutes 1 root usr lib64 sa sa1 1 1 generate a daily summary of process accounting at 23 53 53 23 root usr lib64 sa sa2 a.