Re: cronproblem solved

2003-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:47:45PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > You might not have seen "man 5 crontab" try setting > alias man='man -a' > first then you'll have an option to see all the manpages. For what it's worth, 'export MANOPT=-a' is probably cleaner. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: cronproblem solved

2003-02-15 Thread George Georgalis
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:59:27PM +0100, Ina&Frank wrote: >I hope I'm doing right to 'report' this. No better way to keep opensource open. :) There are actually two types of cron files. The /etc/crontab type and the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/* type. The former is run by root, as a particular us

cronproblem solved

2003-02-15 Thread
Fooks, thanks for not replying to my call ;-) Ik figured that there were no clues??? The solution I foud at last is that a Debian system handles cron a little different. You shoudn't use crontab -e, but make a file yourself with a cron lay-out: min hrs monthday month weekday user command Th