backup script

[Bengt Richter]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 21:55:59 -0500 (EST), Jianping Zhu <zjp at arches.uga.edu> wrote:

>
>Thank you very much for your advice.
>I have one more question about crontab
>
>My ect/crontab is" ------------------------------------- 
>SHELL=/bin/bash
>PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root 
>HOME=/ 
># run-parts
>01 * * * * root run-parbs ietc/cron.hourly
>02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
>22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
>42 4=1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
>00,05,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50 * * * * (echo "";date)>/dev/console
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>The last line is suppseed to print date to screen every 5 minutes, but it
>does not do that. why?
>
I'm not checking any syntax, but assuming everything is right,
maybe the way you are editing the file, the cron daemon is not
getting signaled about the new file version, so it's still using
cached data from the old?

Regards,
Bengt Richter