Re: crontab -e issue

2001-05-27 Thread Eric Boo
Okay, I know what's wrong. I set the thing to go off the next minute from the time I edited the crontab, but crond only loads the entry during the first second of the next minute, so the program won't play. There must be a minimum of 2 seconds from the time i crontab -e. Just for curiousity's s

Re: crontab -e issue

2001-05-27 Thread Eric Boo
Verily, on 28 May 2001 01:06AM (+0800), Eric Boo thusly proclaimed: -> Hi, -> -> I tried running a program at 12.30 AM using cron. Here is my crontab file: -> -> SHELL=/bin/sh -> MAILTO=eric -> 00 1 * * * /usr/bin/mpg123 /home/eric/Personal/alarm/123.mp3 Obvious typo above wrt time. sorry