I'm trying to set up a program to create an automatic hotcopy backup of our subversion files; the subversion setup is running SuSE 9.3 Linux and mounts to the backup, which I believe is also running...

Does renaming the crontab file cause problems with the cron process?

About a week ago, I was trying to make an update to the crontab files on all of our district servers. About halfway through, I...

Please forgive me if this question has a ridiculously obvious answer, I am new to Linux and still have trouble trying to figure things out.

In case it's needed, I'm working with a copy of SuSE 9.3...

Sorry for not responding earlier, but I believe I found the problem.
As I said, I was attempting to type the entire path name into the setup, and it wasn't running correctly. But by including a cd...

I tried that command. There is an entry in the output called /usr/sbin/cron. Is that what I'm supposed to be looking for?

I may have stumbled onto a different problem for this. I've tried...

First: if this is in the wrong place, I apologize.

I'm a newcomer to Linux, but I'm trying to learn what I need to in order to correctly use it.

I've got a program I need to run multiple times,...