Haines Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup > with this, but nothing happens, and there is nothing in syslog:
> # crontab -l > 0 4 * * 0 /home/haines/scripts/backup Is this the only line in that crontab? The default Vixie-cron has the oddity that a line _must_ be terminated by an \n (newline) to be executed. This is why I have always a commented line like "# EOF" as the last line of a crontab to be sure. S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
