From: splee@pd.org (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy) Subject: Re: Can't get crond to work.. Date: 18 Jan 1993 18:09:11 GMT
Hendrik G. Seliger (hank@informatik.uni-essen.de) wrote:
> splee@pd.org (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy) writes:
> : I'm trying without success to get crond to work. When I execute it, it
[stuff deleted]
> A possible problem might be that your crontab isn't the right format. I
> include a piece of mine as an example here:
>
> * * * * * echo "This is cron at `date`" >/dev/tty5
Ahh, see, I was using a format of;
0-59 * * * * ....
which works on a Sun, but I guess not under the Linux cron. Using that
format, it all works. Thanks!