Re: Problems with Cron
I wrote my message from the top of my head. I veryfied later and the entry
is actually
0 8,12,16, * * * root /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/sanchez/.fetchmailrc
Anyway, it still doesn't work.
P. Sanchez
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In message "Problems with Cron", mschmitz@coinet.com writes:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 09:40:00AM -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just installed Debian 1.3, the basic system plus whatever is required
> > to run fetchmail, ppp and diald only (everything I installed is from the
> > current stable distribution). I have two problems with cron:
> >
> > 1. New entries that I add to /etc/crontab are ignored. I edited the file
> > and included the line
> >
> > 0 8,12,16 * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/sanchez/.fetchmailrc
> >
>
> There is no user "usr/bin/fetchmail". :-)>
> IIRC the fields are 'min hr dom mon dow user command' in /etc/crontab.
>
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