RE: Cron Script

["McCammon, Keith" <Keith.McCammon () eadvancemed com>]

If it works from your shell, then it should work fine in cron.  There really isn't any programming to it.  Just create 
a script, which really only entails creating a text file that contains the script, placing it in your sbin or desired 
location, and setting chmod 755. The create the crontab for the user that's running the script:
 
crontab -u [user]
 
And edit it:
 
crontab -u [user] -e
 
The above steps can be combined.  Then edit the crontab, calling the script that you created and specifying how often 
you want it to run.  For details on this see "man cron".
 
Cheers
 
Keith 

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: Schlotterer, Matthew [mailto:Schlotterer () fev-et com] 
        Sent: Thu 5/23/2002 3:57 PM 
        To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net 
        Cc: 
        Subject: [Snort-users] Cron Script
        
        

        I need help in creating a simple script to run the following hourly in cron. 

        perl /home/blah/SnortSnarf-020516.1/snortsnarf.pl /var/log/snort/alert -d /var/x/html/ 

        I have zero knowledge of programming.  This command works fine if executed but I can't seem to write a useful 
script.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

        Matt