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From: Kalai Kalaiarasi <kalaiarasi@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: crontab
To: lucas@slb.to
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I used the crontab command 'crontab -e' to edit.


--- Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> wrote:
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org,
> questions@freebsd.org
> 
> Both those addresses go to the same list.  Please
> don't do that.
> 
> > I have wrote a shell script and trying to run it
> automatically by
> > using crontab... but the shell script doesnt seem
> to be executed by
> > the crontab. Shell script works fine when being
> executed manually.
> > Something wrong with the crontab.... I have edited
> the crontab file
> > as below:
> > 
> >   0 9 * * * /apps/sbldev/script/analysis
> > 
> > But....there shell script is not being executed at
> the specified
> > time (9am)
> 
> Did you edit the /var/cron/tabs/whoever file
> directly, or did you use
> the `crontab' command?  If you edit the file
> directly, you need to
> touch /var/cron/tabs before the `cron' daemon will
> pick up the change.
> The `crontab' command takes care of this
> automatically; see
> crontab(1).
> 
> BTW, /var/cron/tabs should probably be mode 700 and
> /var/cron/tabs/*
> should be mode 600, all owned by root.wheel, so
> regular users _have_
> to use the `crontab' command to edit.
> 
> Lucas


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