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Re: Question about schedule jobs
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 11:48:26PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> I'm beginning soon to host a mirror site for Rawhide development from
> Redhat, and a mirror of KDE (both stable and unstable versions).
Good. Another local mirror. Tres bien!
> The machine which will be mirroring is a Cyrix 133 with 32MB ram, and
> the mirroring program is the well known "mirror" perl scripts package.
Ok too. Standard.
> I would like to know how can I set a schedule job for a specific time
> (lets say 3 AM) to run a specific job? which command and whats the
> syntax (an example will be excellent!).
Use `crontab -e` and enter:
0 4 * * * /usr/bin/mirror /etc/mirror/packages/ftp.debian.org
# a b c d e ------------------------f--------------------------
where:
a is the MINUTE
b is the HOUR
c is DAY OF MONTH
d is MONTH
e is DAY OF WEEK
f is the COMMAND
e.g. my mirror command above mirrors all packages in the file at 0400
every day, every month.
`man 5 crontab` too
> Another question, The machine have VX (or HX - not sure) intel chipset.
> I would like to know if those chipset can handle 9+ GB IDE Hard disks
> (I'm planning to put there 2 of 14 GB Disks - to store as much as I can
> mirrors for the Linux IL community).
Depends on BIOS, not chipset. Better check the BIOS string which you
can see on bootup and compare with http://bios.ping.be list of BIOSes.
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