RE: [PHP] Where is my contrab file located?

You could just create a text file with cron commands and then load it into cron using, %>crontab cronfile > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Lynch [mailto:richard@zend.com] > Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 12:03 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Where is my contrab file located? > > > > Where is my crontrab file located? > > I dunno... > > You're really not supposed to just edit it like a normal file, cuz then > crontab can't run it while you are editing it, I guess. > > Anyway, the man pages for sure say "Don't do that.", so don't. > > You're supposed to use: > > crontab -e > > to edit it. > > That will throw you into the editor defined in the variable > EDITOR, I think. > > If you don't like the editor you get, you can change that EDITOR > variable to > be "vi" or "emacs" or "pico" or "joe" or whatever you > normally use to edit > text files. > > Now for a newbie, changing a variable is an exercise in frustation in its > own right... > > No two shells (the program that, like, when you type "ls" it does what it > should do) are the same for something as mind-numbingly simple as > setting a > darn variable. > > Easiest way to fake your way through not knowing this stuff is this: > > #1. Cd to your home directory > cd > > #2. Show *all* the files in your home dir: > ls -als > > #3. Edit the file that has a name kinda like .bashrc or .bash_profile... > > vi .bash_profile > *** OR **** > pico .bash_profile > > #4. Look for something that seems to be setting a variable, like one of > these: > setenv PATH=blahblahblah > PATH=blahbalbhabl > export PATH > > #5. Do kinda the same thing as that, only with DISPLAY and vi, > or pico, or > whatever. > > #6. If you don't see anything like setting a variable, quit your > editor and > try another file in your home dir. > > Confession: It took me weeks to do my first crontab, due to > these sorts of > things: I'd just about wrap my poor little brain around the > crontab format, > and then, BAM!, I'm in some editor I can't even figure out how to use, so > off I'd get frustrated and quit. It was never a *need* to do the crontab > thing, so I was trying to get it done in a 15-minute task... Anyway, I > think I must have stumbled through all of this 3 or 4 times > before I finally > could manage a block of time big enough to work it all out. > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >