how to write cron job

[anu2]

i want to write cron job for back the mails stored in /var/mail/username , thats for 100 users at time.

can anybody give me detail steps for it

thank you

regards

anuradha

[trickster]

You don't really write a cron job. You would write a script, and then have cron schedule it.

Here is a sample script for backing up mailbox(es).

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/scripts/...up-mail.sh.txt

You can read the Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial and then modify it to suit your needs.

When you are satisfied, you can use cron to schedule it.

http://www.tech-geeks.org/contrib/md...ron-howto.html