[ubuntu-za] cron tutorial or Ubuntu 7.04

[Herman Gouws]

>On Friday 17 August 2007 08:00:35 William Kinghorn wrote:
>> Hi Jason,
>>
>> I am trying to run a debmirror script to update my mirror.
>>
>> I am wanting to run the script as root at midnight everyday.

>crontab -e
>59 * * * * /usr/scripts/mirror_ubuntu.sh

>also see 

>man 5 crontab

Shouldn't that be 59 23 * * * /usr/scripts/mirror_ubuntu.sh ?

As written above the script would run once per hour.

Also, to add it to root's crontab, use 

sudo crontab -e

Hope that helps...
Herman Gouws