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[bberry]

Hi all,

I am a Linux newbie have learned quite a few things from this fourm. I have a Redhat server (V9 I think) that is being used as a syslog server for our newwork hardware. I am reying to setup a cron job so that the first of each month these files are saved and a clean one started for the new month. This appears to have been something that was never setup when the server was placed into production.

I am looking for a few good books that I can use to learn how to set this up. Any recommendations??

Thanks in advance ....

Brent

[Cabhan]

Setting up cron is relatively simple. You can start with the man page for a brief overview:

man 5 crontab

cron basically executes a command at a given interval: that command can be anything that you want, including a custom Bash script or program. So you basically write a script that does what you want, and plug it into cron!

[oz]

I'm not even sure if there are any full books dedicated to cron, but you can find plenty of cron guides with a quick google search.