Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:34:17 +0200 From: Kaya Saman <SamanKaya@netscape.net> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab not working?? Message-ID: <4B4E6689.9090206@netscape.net> In-Reply-To: <6BD85777-C14C-4F0F-83AD-9DEF52D22E85@mac.com> References: <4B4E6337.5000806@netscape.net> <6BD85777-C14C-4F0F-83AD-9DEF52D22E85@mac.com>
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Thanks, I inputted the data as you suggested so now I will wait until the time specified to see if it ran or not! Regards, Kaya Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi-- > > On Jan 13, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: > >> It didn't work so I tried to cut down areas which I suspected might not work and ended up with the syntax below for root: >> >> crontab -l shows: >> >> @reboot root /usr/local/sbin/logwatch.pl >> 02 4 * * * root /usr/local/sbin/logwatch.pl >> > > You're using the syntax for a system-wide crontab, ie, /etc/crontab. Per-user crontabs do not have the middle field listing the user to run as; re-run crontab -e and try this instead: > > @reboot /usr/local/sbin/logwatch.pl > 02 4 * * * /usr/local/sbin/logwatch.pl > > Regards, >
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