perlcgi2000 wrote:

I added three entries to my etc/crontab and then saved the file using Kate.

The entries look like:

27 9 20 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl -cron 43 6 * * * /home/nathan/Documents/getweather.pl * * * * 6 /root/runfprot.pl

Correct format is : minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week <exec> Your top line has an asterisk too many. /Per Jessen, Zürich

perlcgi2000 wrote:

Thanks - I changed that but the jobs still arent being run. Is there a cron daemon that I need to make sure is running ?

Yes, but it will almost certainly already be running: /usr/sbin/cron When it detects that /etc/crontab has been changed you'll see the following line in your syslog: May 13 20:40:01 io /usr/sbin/cron[4000]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab) /Per Jessen, Zürich

Per Jessen wrote:

perlcgi2000 wrote:

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I added three entries to my etc/crontab and then saved the file using Kate.

The entries look like:

27 9 20 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl -cron 43 6 * * * /home/nathan/Documents/getweather.pl * * * * 6 /root/runfprot.pl

Correct format is :

minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week <exec>

Errm, not in /etc/crontab. You also need the username: # minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week user <exec> 29 4 * * 6 root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly Cheers, Dave

On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 08:52 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:

Dave Howorth wrote:

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Correct format is : minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week <exec>

Errm, not in /etc/crontab. You also need the username:

# minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week user <exec> 29 4 * * 6 root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly

You're right of course - funnily, that means "man 5 crontab" is wrong ...

The time and date fields are: field allowed values ----- -------------- minute 0-59 hour 0-23 day of month 1-31 month 1-12 (or names, see below) day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names) Taken from man 5 crontab on SUSE 10.0 -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

On Thursday 18 May 2006 18:18, Per Jessen wrote:

Ken Schneider wrote:

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The time and date fields are:

field allowed values ----- -------------- minute 0-59 hour 0-23 day of month 1-31 month 1-12 (or names, see below) day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names)

Taken from man 5 crontab on SUSE 10.0

Yep, looks just like mine on 10.1 - so where's the "user" field mentioned?

In the text just above it The format of a cron command is very much the V7 standard, with a num‐ ber of upward-compatible extensions. Each line has five time and date fields, followed by a user name if this is the system crontab file, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^