How to set up a cron job 2

brk6971 · Nov 4, 2009

Trying to set up a cron job on a solaris system to run a script
bash-3.2$ sudo crontab -e
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15****/usr/openv/scripts/nbmonitor >/nbmonitor/nbmonitor_out 2>&1 ?

?

?

?
^C
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^C
?
^C
?
^C
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^[^C
?
^C
?
The crontab file was not changed.

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

Mike042 · Nov 4, 2009

There are several threads on this forum (and others) for setting up cron jobs. Have you tried searching for 'cron' and/or 'crontab' and/or 'cronjob' ?

Personally, I don't advise using crontab -e as I have seen large crontab entries 'blanked out'.

Try:
crontab -l > /tmp/mycron.txt
vi /tmp/mycron.txt
crontab /tmp/mycron.txt

I hope that helps.

Mike

KenCunningham · Nov 4, 2009

Looks to me that your default editor is set to ed. Do an:

export EDITOR=vi

(maybe put this in your startup profile for the future?)

and then try to crontab -e it and things should be clearer.
That said, I would echo Mike's advice re. copying first then applying the copy once you're happy with it, particularly if you're not really au-fait with vi itself.

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brk6971 · Nov 4, 2009

Thanks both suggestions were helpful

KenCunningham · Nov 4, 2009

Thanks for the star - glad to help.

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How to set up a cron job 2

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