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 > >doesn't really work > > Oops. This was a mistake on my part in writing the e-mail. I've got 4 > *s in the actual file. you can run crontab -e as user sunkcost, and put 5,10,15 * * * * sunkcost /bin/tar -cf /home/sunkcost/test.tar /home/sunkcost/test.txt there
if this doesn't work, there's probably something wrong with cron, read the logs (/var/log/syslog for me), or try adding something very simple, like * * * * * /usr/bin/touch /tmp/cron_ran with crontab -e in root's or sunkcost's crontab if you want to edit a user's crontab, always use crontab -e, /etc/cron.d is mainly meant for packages to install cron entries. -- ,-------------------------------------------. > Name: Alson van der Meulen < > Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > School: [EMAIL PROTECTED] < `-------------------------------------------' I have never seen it do *that* before... ---------------------------------------------
