[clue-tech] Cron question

[Jack Swope]

Use crontab -e to create the crontab file.  It will put it in the right
place and you shouldn't have any further problems.

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 12:26, George Gammel wrote:
> Hi folks--
> 
> I need a little help with this one.  I want to set up a cron job to run at 
> 8:30 PM on Monday thru Friday.  First, I checked if there were any existing 
> crontab files and found that there were not by using crontab -l command.  
> Then, I created a text file which contains this:
> 
> 30 Tab 20 Tab * Tab * Tab 1-5 Tab /home/gggammel/Downloads/Daily_Wget.sh
> 
> Then, I ran crontab with the textfile filename.  It appears to have accepted 
> the new crontab and will list out the above text when I enter crontab -l.  
> The crontab file is present in /var/spool/cron and also contains the above 
> text.  There are no allow or deny files.  But, it doesn't seem to do anything 
> at 8:30 PM.  
> 
> The shell script file (Daily_Wget.sh) works fine when I manually launch it by 
> double cliking it in Konqueror. According to the Mandrake Control Center, 
> cron is listed as an active service, so it appears to be running.  What am I 
> missing?  Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> George Gammel
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Jack Swope
Systems Administrator
Konica-Minolta Systems Laboratory
Core Technology Laboratory
Boulder, CO
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