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kacou — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:22:16 GMT

Hi,

Does someone know the meaning of this syntax?
NB: my headmaster told me to put this syntax on the cron.

""edw_dev@SVR-EDW:/home/edw_dev>crontab -e""

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Duncan Edmonstone — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:32:54 GMT

This looks like a combination of a prompt and a command. The prompt is:

edw_dev@SVR-EDW:/home/edw_dev>

which looks like an informative prompt that tells you are logged in as the edw_dev user on the system SVR-EDW and are currently in the directory /home/edw_dev

and the command was:

crontab -e

So at a guess I'd say your "headmaster" asked you to login to the server SVR-EDW using the edw_dev user and then execte the command "crontab -e"

That would launcg an editor (probably vi) with a copy of the cron entries for the edw_dev user in it. Were you asked to add a cron job for this user?

HTH

Duncan
(starting to wonder what qualifies people to become admins these days)

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