On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:17:32PM -0600, sc wrote: > > (don't think this one went through. Apologies if this is a repost) > > I'm having troubles getting my backups automated. I set up a file "test" > in the cron.d directory with the settings... > > 5,10,15 * * * sunkcost /bin/tar -cf /home/sunkcost/test.tar > /home/sunkcost/test.txt try 5,10,15 * * * * sunkcost /bin/tar -cf /home/sunkcost/test.tar /home/sunkcost/test.txt
you forgot a *, so cron tried to interpet sunkcost as day of week, which doesn't really work > > I thought that cron was supposed to check through its crontab and related > files every minute or so, but nothing happens. I tried restarting cron > manually, root as the user, and editing crontab directly, but no dice. > > I'm probably missing something really obvious for what seems like a > straightforward setup, but I'm stuck. Can somebody give me some help > here? > > TIA, > > --SC > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- ,-------------------------------------------. > Name: Alson van der Meulen < > Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > School: [EMAIL PROTECTED] < `-------------------------------------------' Where's the GUI on this thing? ---------------------------------------------
