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- From: konopik@konopik.austin.ibm.com (Brad Konopik)
- Subject: Problem with cron and AIX 3.1.7
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.223436.912@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>
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- Organization: IBM AIX Porting Center, Austin
- References: <ROLF.92Aug26150527@green.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 22:34:36 GMT
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- In article <ROLF.92Aug26150527@green.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de> rolf@green.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de (Rolf Schreiber) writes:
- >I want to make a backup of some files every night, so I looked at
- >cron and started
- >
- >crontab mycronfile
- >
- >with mycronfile:
- >
- >30 2 * * 0 /home/rolf/bin/mybackup -basic
- >30 2 * * 1-6 /home/rolf/bin/mybackup -update
- >10 * * * * /home/rolf/bin/testcron
- >
- >Each command was executed one time (the correct time), but as I think
- >it should run every time (the testcron should run every hour for
- >example). It doesn't!
- >
- >Any suggestions welcome. Please answer by email, I'll summarise if
- >there is interest.
- >
- >Thanks, Rolf
- >--
- >Rolf Schreiber EMail : rolf@green.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de
-
- I had a similar problem. I received an emergency fix for APAR IX23061 and
- it fixed the problem.
-
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