Re: OT: cron help

2013-12-13 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/12/2013 08:35 PM, g issued this missive: On 12/12/2013 09:10 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gregory Hosler wrote: On 12/13/2013 09:02 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to execute a command once a minute. As a test I place

Re: OT: cron help

2013-12-13 Thread g
hello again mike, On 12/12/2013 10:35 PM, g wrote: <> i do not know what op's 0,1 would do as i have never seen <,> used in any cron commands. now i do. and when i found it, it did come back to me, in spite of my 'chemo brain'. ;=) while watching reruns of 'space 1999', during a commer

Re: OT: cron help

2013-12-12 Thread g
On 12/12/2013 09:10 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gregory Hosler wrote: On 12/13/2013 09:02 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to execute a command once a minute. As a test I place this: 0,1 * * * * /bin/ping -c1 w.x.y.z > /dev

Re: OT: cron help

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gregory Hosler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/13/2013 09:02 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to execute a command once a minute. As a test I place this: 0,1 * * * * /bin/ping -c1 w.x.y.z > /dev/

Re: OT: cron help

2013-12-12 Thread Gregory Hosler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/13/2013 09:02 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Mike Wright > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to execute a command once a minute. As a test I place this: >> >> 0,1 * * * * /bin/ping -c1 w.x.y.z > /dev/null 2>

Re: OT: cron help

2013-12-12 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to execute a command once a minute. As a test I place this: > > 0,1 * * * * /bin/ping -c1 w.x.y.z > /dev/null 2>&1 > > in /etc/cron.d/everyMinute > > but nothing is happening. I've done "service crond restart". > > An