On 7/17/06, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In the last episode (Jul 17), perikillo said: > Hi people. > > Im testing how to run scripts from cron using the crontab program, > the handbook say tha each user need to have a crontab file if they > want to run some process with the cron program: > > user-x$ crontab -e > > SHELL=/bin/sh > PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin > MAILTO=root > */1 * * * * user-x /bin/echo "Testing"User crontabs don't have a "username" column. Remove "user-x" from the above line and it should work. You should still have gotten an error message emailed to root, something like "user-x: not found". Maybe looking at /var/log/cron will help. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yeaa guys thanks for your help, my job is working now just need to figure out why is not sending the email to the root account...? Thanks :-). _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
