Hello Mike thanks for you responce, Mike Werner wrote: > > One thing that you must be carefull of is to make absolutely sure that there > is a line feed at the end of that line. As an example: >
This might have been it. I did add some line feeds in the entry (always using crontab -e) but that didn't work. So I fired it up again, erased the existing entry, typed it again with a couple extra line feeds and sure enough it worked. > > You do not have to be logged in to have a cron job run. The crontab I > inserted above works just fine if I'm not logged onto my box. Yep, you're right again. Somewhere I had gotten the impression that users had to be logged in for their crontab stuff to work. But I guess that wouldn't be terribly useful. Thanks for your help it's all working very well now, David Bellows
