Re: can't add cron job

[jqdkf@zju.edu.cn]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 10:41:53PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> Roberto Sanchez said on Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 10:42:13PM -0400:
> > This is the cron job I just added for ipcheck.  It is located in 
> > /etc/cron.d/ipcheck
> > 
> > # Run ipcheck every 2 minutes
> > */2 *     * * *     python ipcheck.py -l -r checkip.dyndns.org:8245 
> > <username> <password> <hostname>
> > 
> > The job is not running, though.  I even executed '/etc/init.d/cron restart' 
> > to restart cron, but it did not help.  When I log into dyndns.org and 
> > lookup the IP address in the database for my host, it still show an out of 
> > date IP address.  Am I missing something here?

I think you should change */2 to 0-59/2, or how can the crond know
whether it is 1 3 5 or 2 4 6?


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