Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 11:55:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Crontab Loop Message-ID: <XFMail.980615115504.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
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I've got a strange problem with a user's crontab (mine). I wrote a perl script to go to a web site and copy the page to an email to be sent to me (so I would have a daily status message while I was on vacation). The script worked well when tested from the command line. When I inserted it into my crontab using tkcron (as well as crontab -e), and ran it with a 2 digit hour field (say 10 AM daily), it ran once, like it was supposed to. But then I changed it to 6 AM, (single digit) and it hiccuped. It ran every minute starting at 6 AM for 60 minutes. So when I came back from my vacation, I had like 900 messages when I should have only had 15. Does anyone know why this kept running like this? I have since tried it from here on two machines, with the same results. I have also tried /etc/crontab, with the same results. It's strange. I'm back, so this isn't a problem anymore, but I'd like to know what I am doing wrong. My other cron scripts work like they are supposed to. Thanks, Patrick Gardella To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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