Re: About crontab

[Philipp Schulte <p.schulte@matrix.uni-duisburg.de>]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:22:17PM +0000, uland wrote: 

> Hi,
>   I want to submit a job to crontab, and follow the "new" format
> such as:
> m h dom mon dow user  command
> 0 12 * * * someone /bin/somecommand
> But it does not work for me. I find some message in syslog:
> Dec 14 12:00:00 omega /USR/SBIN/CRON[11215]: (someone) CMD (someone^Isomecommand)
> How can I make my job work? Thanks a lot.

I had such problems too. Then I found out that you have to put a new
line (\n) after the command, even if there is just this single job
definded in your crontab.
Phi