Re: Help with cron settings?
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:17:32PM -0600, sc wrote:
>
> (don't think this one went through. Apologies if this is a repost)
>
> I'm having troubles getting my backups automated. I set up a file "test"
> in the cron.d directory with the settings...
>
> 5,10,15 * * * sunkcost /bin/tar -cf /home/sunkcost/test.tar
> /home/sunkcost/test.txt
try 5,10,15 * * * * sunkcost /bin/tar -cf /home/sunkcost/test.tar /home/sunkcost/test.txt
you forgot a *, so cron tried to interpet sunkcost as day of week, which
doesn't really work
>
> I thought that cron was supposed to check through its crontab and related
> files every minute or so, but nothing happens. I tried restarting cron
> manually, root as the user, and editing crontab directly, but no dice.
>
> I'm probably missing something really obvious for what seems like a
> straightforward setup, but I'm stuck. Can somebody give me some help
> here?
>
> TIA,
>
> --SC
>
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Where's the GUI on this thing?
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