On 28 Mar 2007 at 8:41, Will Maier wrote: > According to cron(8), cron should be able to read commands from a > properly formatted and chmoded /etc/crontab file. I've created such > a file, but I can't seem to get cron to run the test command in it. > > # cat <<EOF > /etc/crontab > */1 * * * * /usr/bin/touch /tmp/crontest
That ain't a properly formatted system crontab string (you're missing the user field) It is however a vaild user crontab string but then you can't put it in the system crontab.
