Re: Help with cron, please (SOLVED)

2002-01-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 04:17:04PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:09:18PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > > It is now gone, but cron continues to try to run > > > > rnews -U > > > > every hour, and then sends me, as sysadmin (ha, ha), warning me that it has > > failed t

Re: Help with cron, please

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
> I am trying to clean out my potato. I recently removed network news, inn2, > because I installed it by mistake, thinking it was something else than it is. > I removed it by using dselect and marking it for removal. > It is now gone, but cron continues to try to run > > rnews -U > > every hou

Re: Help with cron, please

2002-01-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:09:18PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > It is now gone, but cron continues to try to run > > rnews -U > > every hour, and then sends me, as sysadmin (ha, ha), warning me that it has > failed to find rnews. > > How can I remove this cron job? > I have looked for cront

Help with cron, please

2002-01-25 Thread Paul E Condon
I am trying to clean out my potato. I recently removed network news, inn2, because I installed it by mistake, thinking it was something else than it is. I removed it by using dselect and marking it for removal. It is now gone, but cron continues to try to run rnews -U every hour, and then send

Re: Help with cron settings?

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:03:01PM -0600, sc wrote: > On 11/18/00 4:26 PM, Alson van der Meulen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >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

Re: Help with cron settings?

2000-11-18 Thread sc
On 11/18/00 4:26 PM, Alson van der Meulen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >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 Oops. This was a mistake on my part in

Re: Help with cron settings?

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:41:45PM -0600, Damian Menscher wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, sc wrote: > > > 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

Re: Help with cron settings?

2000-11-18 Thread Damian Menscher
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, sc wrote: > 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 > > I thought that cron was supposed to check thro

Re: Help with cron settings?

2000-11-18 Thread Alson van der Meulen
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/

Help with cron settings?

2000-11-18 Thread sc
(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 I thought that cron wa

Re: Help with CRON

1999-01-15 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> "William" == William Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: -> -> William> I put the following entry into my "crontab" file. (Yea, i -> William> used "crontab -e" to edit the file as root) -> -> William> 0-55/5 * * * * root mrtg /mrtg-2.5.4c/mrtg.cfg -> -> You need a blank line at the end. nop

Re: Help with CRON

1999-01-14 Thread Deniz Dogan
"William" == William Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: William> I put the following entry into my "crontab" file. (Yea, i William> used "crontab -e" to edit the file as root) William> 0-55/5 * * * * root mrtg /mrtg-2.5.4c/mrtg.cfg You need a blank line at the end. Regards. -- Deniz Dogan

Re: Help with CRON

1999-01-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 01:41:00PM -0500, William Schwartz wrote: : 0-55/5 * * * * root mrtg /mrtg-2.5.4c/mrtg.cfg Try */5 * * * * instead, I'd say. And leave the "root " out; you need to define the username when using /etc/crontab, not when you're using the 'crontab -e' command. by

Help with CRON

1999-01-13 Thread William Schwartz
OK. I can't figure this out. maybe someone can help me real quick. I'm trying to schedule MRTG to run every 5 minutes. Easy enough? I put the following entry into my "crontab" file. (Yea, i used "crontab -e" to edit the file as root) 0-55/5 * * * * root mrtg /mrtg-2.5.4c/mrtg.cfg Now, I