<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Charles (don't forget to reply to the whole list)</div></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 December 2014 at 11:54, Charles Irons <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:irons.charles@gmail.com" target="_blank">irons.charles@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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Thanks Matt and Colin<br>
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1. Man cron has 160 lines of notes that I don't understand.<br>
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2. What is the name to insert for Software Updater?<br>
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3. How do I authenticate for Software Updater?<br>
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4. How do I set a time to run?<br>
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Sorry but I am not really competent with terminal operation.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>There are a lot of good tutorials on the internet that will help you more than I can in an email. Here's a good starting place:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>In short, "crontab" is the command you want to consult/edit the jobs.</div><div><br></div><div>The jobs executed by the current user:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace"><b>crontab -l </b># list them in the terminal</font></div><div><div><font face="monospace"><b>crontab -e </b># edit them in your default editor</font></div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The jobs executed by superuser (which you will need to be in order to update apt)</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="monospace"><b>sudo crontab -l </b># to list them</font></div></div><div><font face="monospace"><b>sudo crontab -e </b># to edit them<b><br></b></font></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Each command is entered as a new line. </div><div>Leave a blank line at the end of the file (it should warn you if you don't do that)</div><div><br></div><div>The format for each line is (each parameter separated by a single space):</div><div><br></div><div>minute (0-59), hour (0-23, 0 = midnight), day (1-31), month (1-12), weekday (0-6, 0 = Sunday), command<br></div><div><br></div><div>Example line to run a command at 01:00:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace"><b>00 01 * * * /usr/bin/somedirectory/somecommand</b></font><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hope that helps you get started.</div><div><br></div><div>Matt</div></div></div></div>