Re: Help with cron settings?

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

On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:03:01PM -0600, sc wrote:
> On 11/18/00 4:26 PM, Alson van der Meulen (alsonm@linuxfreak.com) wrote:
> >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
> 
> Oops.  This was a mistake on my part in writing the e-mail.  I've got 4 
> *s in the actual file.  
you can run crontab -e as user sunkcost, and put
5,10,15 * * * * sunkcost /bin/tar -cf /home/sunkcost/test.tar /home/sunkcost/test.txt
there

if this doesn't work, there's probably something wrong with cron, read the logs
(/var/log/syslog for me), or try adding something very simple, like
* * * * * /usr/bin/touch /tmp/cron_ran
with crontab -e in root's or sunkcost's crontab

if you want to edit a user's crontab, always use crontab -e, /etc/cron.d is
mainly meant for packages to install cron entries.

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I have never seen it do *that* before...
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