Re: cron job problem

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > > > Crontab is the daemon which runs cron jobs, and some distros have set up > special files called cron.daily (or daily.cron I don't recall), > cron.hourly, etc to make it easier to schedule jobs. Quick clarification and correction here: The cron *daemon* is crond, while the *script* that is batch-processed by cron is called the crontab. When it is executed, it is referred to as a cron job. That said, Ash is right about the rest. Different OS flavors (BSD, Linux, UNIX, SunOS/Solaris, HP-UX, et cetera) often use different path and file standards. Linux, in general, uses a command crontab which opens the local user's environment-configured editor to modify the user's crontab in the spool. -- </Daniel P. Brown> Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/