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 ?