Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:24:04 -0800 From: "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@datasphereweb.com> To: <darryl@osborne-ind.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: crontab question Message-ID: <A99A5AC30F74624388EE5F757BA58A20D7A207@RED-MSG-50.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <005101c3f6ef$54615f30$0701a8c0@darryl>
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> Greetings, > I am running 5.1-release. I created the file=20 > /var/cron/tabs/root . It is owner root, group wheel.=20 > permissions are -rw------- >=20 > I have the following entry in the file root >=20 > 0 22 2-31 * * /usr/local/bin/rsync -av /dept2/Marketing/=20 > /data/Marketing > 2>&1 /r > oot/rsync.log >=20 > Of course the line above is all on one line. >=20 > Well, this command did not run last night. No=20 > /root/rsync.log file was created. No email was generated. Zip. >=20 > what did I screw up to prevent cron from running the command ? >=20 As far as I know, you should never manually create a crontab file. = Normal users should just type crontab -e on a command line for scheduling. The same might apply to root, never tried personally. One sure fire way to = get it working is to add your above line to /etc/crontab with root in the = user column. This is not normally recommanded, so you might try doing = crontab -e as root first.
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