New to the Cron method need help please!

[Rastar]

Okay for the past three years I have always started my Multi User dungeon this way.

Assuming a reboot has just occurred;

shell
cd /muddir/src
./startup port &

is there not a way to have the boot sequence do this for me and provide a check to ensure it is always running and when not restart it?

Also, the codebase I am using has a webserver built in that basically captures players names and such and posts it to html files. How do I script that to automatically move the files to my /var/www/html/ directory?

Thanks again

Ras

[pbharris]

hi Ras,
any chance you had a gander at the cron PET ?
http://www.linuxjunior.org/cgi-bin/p...play&id=69.

you can have those run every minute of you like.

* * * * * sh;cd /muddir/src;./startup port

the a
0,30 * * * * mv /dir/files /var/www/html/ would move them every half hour.

[Rastar]

Tried to follow the pet here is what I typed

* * * * * sh; cd /home/rastar/afkmud/src; ./startup 2000

It then returned E348: No string under cursor.

I hit the : q key and it said No write since last update but a : ! and it escapes with the wording no crontab for rastar - using an empty one
crontab: no changes made to crontab

Obviously this is not working at all? Any suggestions on how to create the file so that it will recognize my work?

I read the pet and while it gave me some help not much and the MAN kinda lacks as well

Thanks
Ras

[pbharris]

hello,
before you do this try entering export EDITOR=gedit or what ever editor you like, by default it uses vi, not vim or pico.