Re: [CONFUSED NEWBIE] Cron

2004-11-05 Thread Ali Alphan Bayazit
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 12:54 -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: > > 0 0 * * * root /usr/lib/cgi-bin/send_hit_count.cgi > > > Oops. Check out the man page for cron and especially crontab(5). > > > 1. send_hit_count.cgi apparently is not being executed. It works > > interactively, but there are no messages

Re: [CONFUSED NEWBIE] Cron

2004-11-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 05 November 2004 12:49, Joseph wrote: > I added a new line to crontab: > 0 0 * * * root /usr/lib/cgi-bin/send_hit_count.cgi > > 1. send_hit_count.cgi apparently is not being executed. 9 times out of 10 when this happens to me, it's because I forgot to add an extra blank line to the end

Re: [CONFUSED NEWBIE] Cron

2004-11-05 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 05 November 2004 11:49, Joseph wrote: > Hi folks. > > This is probably very simple stuff, but I'm thoroughly confused. I > have an "off-the-shelf" Debian installation provided by my ISP. When > I do a ps -ef I get > (amongst other things) the following > root 195 1 0 Oct28 ?

[CONFUSED NEWBIE] Cron

2004-11-05 Thread Joseph
Hi folks. This is probably very simple stuff, but I'm thoroughly confused. I have an "off-the-shelf" Debian installation provided by my ISP. When I do a ps -ef I get (amongst other things) the following root 195 1 0 Oct28 ?00:00:01 /usr/sbin/cron Now, according to the manual

re: NEWBIE: cron

2000-12-10 Thread sc
For more info, there's a number of good articles on using cron via LinuxToday. Use the Search function for cron. Steve

re: NEWBIE: cron

2000-12-08 Thread Sebastiaan
Thanks all!

re: NEWBIE: cron

2000-12-08 Thread minh-quang . yvonet
Try man 5 crontab fields are: minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week user command The line you used appends the date in /home/dating everyday at 00:01 If you want it to run every minute, you can try */1 * * * * root date >> /home/dating Hi, I am new to cron tasks and I can not find

Re: NEWBIE: cron

2000-12-08 Thread Bek Oberin
Erik Steffl wrote: > > I am new to cron tasks and I can not find out how I can run a task every > > minute. I have now this line in /etc/crontab: > > # m h dom mon dow user command > > 1 0 * * * rootdate >> /home/dating > > This should export the date every minute to /home/dating, but it

Re: NEWBIE: cron

2000-12-08 Thread Erik Steffl
it would be ran everytime minute is one and hour is zero (= 0:01 AM). to run something EVERY minute you need something like this: 0-59 * * * root date >> /home/dating erik Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hi, > I am new to cron tasks and I can not find out how I can run a task every > minut

Re: NEWBIE: cron

2000-12-08 Thread kmself
on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 09:38:45AM +0100, Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > I am new to cron tasks and I can not find out how I can run a task every > minute. I have now this line in /etc/crontab: > # m h dom mon dow usercommand > 1 0 * * * rootdate >> /home/dating > >

NEWBIE: cron

2000-12-08 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I am new to cron tasks and I can not find out how I can run a task every minute. I have now this line in /etc/crontab: # m h dom mon dow user command 1 0 * * * rootdate >> /home/dating This should export the date every minute to /home/dating, but it does not seem to work. And what d