Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:53:32 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: perikillo <perikillo@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: User crontab file dosent run...? Message-ID: <20060717175332.GB81811@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <51d7a5160607171017v148af14v2c838ca5bd129b87@mail.gmail.com> References: <51d7a5160607171017v148af14v2c838ca5bd129b87@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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