cron.d configuration

[elthox]

Hello all,

Could anyone tell me how is configured a script in this directory to run every 5 minutes?

THanks in advance

[anomie]

Depending on what you're trying to do exactly, it may be a better approach to just add this to the crontab of the user you want the job to run as.

See

man 1 crontab

for how to edit a user's crontab, and

man 5 crontab

to see how to create your cronjob correctly.

Example:

[hector@troy ~]$ crontab -l
5 4 * * * /usr/home/hector/.cronjobs/nightly-backup

This runs my nightly-backup script at 4:05 a.m. every day.