This site is rarely updated. benbrophy.com is more up-to-date. - Ben

Scheduling updates with crontab

I just set up my laptop to do these blog updates for me automatically every 30 minutes. Here's how I did it.

  1. In the terminal type: crontab -e
  2. This opens 'vi' a commandline text editor. ESC i to edit
  3. I added this as the first line: */3 * * * * root /usr/bin/blosxom.cgi -password='mypassword' -quiet=1
  4. escape key, then ':wq' to save and leave vi

If you are reading this, it worked!

Comments | 2005-02-11