From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 13:28:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f258.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.16.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E411137B6A5 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:28:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:28:12 -0800 Received: from 206.217.37.2 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:28:12 GMT X-Originating-IP: [206.217.37.2] From: "Brad W" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cronfile Not working Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:28:12 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Jan 2001 21:28:12.0752 (UTC) FILETIME=[3C677D00:01C07B4C] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, I created a cronfile on my FreeBSD (4.2 release) machine as follows: bash> crontab -e 0 10 * * 2 /usr/home/bwatts/scripts/mail_to.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 10 16 * * * /usr/home/bwatts/scripts/test.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 /tmp/crontab.rlDzdg1222: 2 lines, 126 characters. crontab: installing new crontab bash$ Now when attempt to view the crontab via (crontab -l), I get --> bash$ crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.rlDzdg1222 installed on Wed Jan 10 16:28:13 2001) # (Cron version -- $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.c,v 1.12.2.1 2000/11/09 11:05:36 dwmalone Exp $) 0 10 * * 2 /usr/home/bwatts/scripts/mail_to.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 10 16 * * * /usr/home/bwatts/scripts/test.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 ...Only there is no file /tmp/crontab.rlDzdg1222 Does anyone know what the problem might be? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message