... it's also worth noting that there's two competing cron systems under Debian ... the normal one (invoked through crontab command etc.) and the /etc/crontab file ... and they actually work independently of each other. For example, I run a bunch of backup scripts etc from /etc/crontab, and just run a backup tape reminder through something like:
crontab remindme.txt Andrew ------------------------------------------------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -----Original Message----- From: Armin Joellenbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 4:54 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: crontab On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 01:25:13AM -0400, Jacob Stowell wrote: > > i read many pages about how to set the crontab, which seems pretty > straight forward, but i seem to be missing something. this is what i > have done so far: > > crontab -e > > #test to make sure the dns is current > 30 6 * * * /usr/local/bin/addns-0.73c.pl >> /home/jake/addns.txt > Hi, I can't see if you stripped empty lines of the above output. But give a try to the following from crontab(5) manpage: Note that if the line does not have a trailing newline character, the entire line will be silently ignored by both crontab and cron; the command will never be executed. Armin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
