Execute script on startup, etc.

[alalusim]

I've just been playing around with some shell scripts and I was wondering how I could execute a script I wrote (stored in a file) at certain times (i.e. startup, every hour, etc.) without calling it manually. Any help?

[Javasnob]

Look into cron. It'll get you where you need to go.

[alalusim]

I looked into the man page for cron and it mentioned two files - rc and rc.local - but I'm not exactly sure what to do from there.

[devils casper]

hi !!

check this link ...

http://www.scrounge.org/linux/cron.html





casper

[alalusim]

Thanks for the link. I read the guide and followed the instructions but my scripts aren't being executed. I set up the crontab correctly and it shows when I use crontab -l but the actual script is never carried out. Can anyone help?