I ran into this last weekend. Apparently, /etc/crontab is no longer used. The equivalent file is now /var/spool/cron/root for vixie cron. Your best bet is to use crontab -e to edit your crontab file. > Subject: > cron > Date: > Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:21:51 +0100 (MET) > From: > Nick Afshartous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I'm having trouble getting cron to exec under RH 6.1. Even > a simple job to 'ls' every minute does not fly as shown below. > If I put a script in /etc/cron.hourly that works though. > Thanks for any tips. > -- > > Nick > > crontab -l > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (cronentries installed on Thu Feb 3 09:40:21 2000) > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) > * * * * * ls >$HOME/foo -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
