Re: Help with cron settings?

[Alson van der Meulen <alsonm@linuxfreak.com>]

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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