How to setup Cron jobs?

[ultan]

I don't have any GUI on, is there a way or place for me to set the cron jobs?
Or let other users use their own cron jobs?
Because I read that running as root is dangerous.

[cornelis]

Try looking in the /etc directory or many do a locate crontab
I think you can specify what user you want it to run as on there as well.

[allon]

A suggestion is to set up cron directories in their sites and then tell them which folder will be excuted daily, weekly, monthly etc etc.
But of course as their own user.

[sandman]

Hi,

If you install webalizer from redhat rpm the following script is placed in /etc/cron.daily: It is actually named 00webalizer so that it is executed before all the other scripts in /etc/cron.daily AND (owner/group root and permissions 755).

If you wanted to run Webalizer daily from my /etc/cron.daily directory at 12:05am

PHP Code:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

# sysstat
0 * * * 0,6 /usr/lib/sa/sa1 600 6 &
5 19 * * * /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A &

# webalizer (run daily at 12:05 am)
05 0 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily2 


This is something I do. Create a directory called (for example) /etc/cron.daily2 and place the equivalent webalizer script in it. Then edit /etc/crontab so that you have 'run-parts' (/usr/bin/run-parts script) do what it does for /etc/cron.daily but at a different time :

# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
5 0 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily2

cheers