Re: cron job problem

On 10/23/2012 6:18 PM, David OBrien wrote:

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote:

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/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

script runs ntp updates server time script runs again? But why now? This process has been running just fine for months.