[cobalt-security] Cron

[ISP4all <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can anyone point me in right direction as to how to set up a crontab
instruction to run a perl script once a week.

On the cobaltt site it gives this instruction in the knowledge base:

You can place the CGI you want to run every hour, into the directory
/etc/cron.hourly. Make sure that the script has execute permissions.
Also you need to be logged in as root to make this change.

If I carry out these instructions it will not let me FTP the Perl Script
into the /etc/cron.weekly directory as I get Permission Denied.  I am
also confused as to how the software will determine at what time of the
day to run the script.

Thanks

Paul