Crontabs

[bruinsfan]

Hi, I have a question that is probably very simple to the majority of you but is very difficult for me so I was hoping you guys could help.

Here's the question

Set up a cronjob for root that creates an archive of the home directory of the user arnold as well as all files located in /var belonging to arnold. The archive has to be created at the end of the month early in the morning
(between 12:00 am and 5:00 am). Store the archive in /var/local/backup. Give the archive a descriptive filename and include the month as part of the filename, such as arnold-Jan.tar. Everytime the archive is created log the action to a separate log file named /var/log/user.

Note: The action has to be accomplished using a single job entry.
Tip: Additional useful commands are: logger, date, and man (!)

Any help would be appreciated thanks!!!

[oz]

Locking, as it's against the forum rules to post homework questions:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...ums-rules.html

oz