Time Update Script

[xeonman9000]

Hi, my Motherboard seems to have real trouble keeping time, it looses about 10 seconds every hour. I found a command that I can run to update it via the internet, but I would like to put this in a shell script so that it runs every hour and at bootup. I added it to a file I keep in ~/.kde/Autostart that runs a few other commands at bootup.

rdate -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu && hwclock --systohc

How can I get this to run every hour?
Thanks, Mike.

[wneumann]

read the manpages for cron and crontab

[xeonman9000]

Cheers. That's just what I was after.
Infact, it was even easier than I thought. Don't you just love Linux?

[cBoSSi]

Originally Posted by wneumann

read the manpages for cron and crontab

Nice...thanks for the clue

[cBoSSi]

crontab -e

#minutes (0-59),
#| hour (0-23),
#| | day (1-31),
#| | | month (1-12),
#| | | | day of week (0-6 0=sunday).
#| | | | | commands
#------------------------------------------------------------