RE: crontab

["Andrew McRobert" <mcrobert@central.murdoch.edu.au>]

... it's also worth noting that there's two competing cron systems under
Debian ... the normal one (invoked through crontab command etc.) and the
/etc/crontab file ... and they actually work independently of each other.
For example, I run a bunch of backup scripts etc from /etc/crontab, and just
run a backup tape reminder through something like:

crontab remindme.txt

Andrew

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-----Original Message-----
From: Armin Joellenbeck [mailto:joellenbeck@math.uni-kiel.de]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 4:54 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: crontab


On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 01:25:13AM -0400, Jacob Stowell wrote:
>
> i read many pages about how to set the crontab, which seems pretty
> straight forward, but i seem to be missing something.  this is what i
> have done so far:
>
> crontab -e
>
> #test to make sure the dns is current
> 30 6 * * * /usr/local/bin/addns-0.73c.pl >> /home/jake/addns.txt
>

Hi,

I can't see if you stripped empty lines of the above output.
But give a try to the following from crontab(5) manpage:

                                       Note that if the line does
       not have a trailing newline  character,  the  entire  line
       will  be  silently  ignored  by both crontab and cron; the
       command will never be executed.


Armin








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