Hi all,

I want to make a cron job for my webserver, only it seems not to work...

I have now the followig to test (every 16th minute of the hour, write test to a file), but it doesn't show up. When I write out the cron, it is done to the file: /tmp/crontab.QXsBIO/crontab . How to make cron work? It must be very easy, but I have real troubles getting it fired up.



My Linux version is debian lenny and the cron file looks like (crontab -e):

# m h dom mon dow command
16 * * * * root echo "test" > /tmp/test.txt

(with trailing empty line at the end)

Best regards, Geert

You don't put the username in a user's crontab.

Is there also a non user cron?

Yep, just

crontab -e

as the relevant user.
http://adminschoice.com/crontab-quic...Crontab%20file