Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:29:23 -0700 From: perikillo <perikillo@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: User crontab file dosent run...? Message-ID: <51d7a5160607172329n4e5919b7ua15dbc091dfa4c58@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060717175332.GB81811@dan.emsphone.com> References: <51d7a5160607171017v148af14v2c838ca5bd129b87@mail.gmail.com> <20060717175332.GB81811@dan.emsphone.com>
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On 7/17/06, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> 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 > dnelson@allantgroup.com > 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 :-).
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