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[Joachim Schrod <jschrod@xxxxxxx>]

G T Smith wrote:
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> Mohamed Haidar wrote:
> > Hello guys, I have a problem with cron. I got a program for updating my
> > ip to a internet dns host and i set it up correctly. The program  works.
> > Now with the program came a file  that i putt in the /etc/cron.d dir
> > because the program instructed me to do that. Basically  what I want to
> > do is to let the program run once a minute. The file I putt in the
> > cron.d dir contains these entries :
> >
> >  * *       * * *   root    /usr/bin/ipdetect.sh
> >  */15 *  * * *   root    /usr/bin/ipdetect.sh -p host -r browser -c
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> The above lines should be either be added to the /etc/crontab file.

Please be careful: Mohamed's approach of creating a file with that 
content in /etc/cron.d/ is perfectly valid, and this is also the 
right syntax for these files (with the user). Therefore, it 
*should* work, and we need more information to debug his problem.

Cron reads more than /etc/crontab and the personal crontab files, 
it also reads /etc/cron.d/*, as explained in the 2nd paragraph of 
man cron.

        Joachim

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Joachim Schrod                          Email: jschrod@xxxxxxx
Roedermark, Germany

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