I can't get crontab to work. (call it cron , cronning, whatever, i still can't make it work. )

Details:
I know correct syntax(min, hour, date, month, day of week, user, command)
but I still can't make it work. There is a crontab file, but no crontab file for root or penguin (my login). How do I make one and where do I put it?
Ok, and what about cron.weekly et al? do I save my commands in there or just in the crontab file?

my books are very vague and I can't understand them. googling doesn't help me understand what's wrong.

(Oh, I run Red hat 8.0)

very confused
- titanium_geek

I've had luck with the man page for me

I create the cron's with root, for any user:
crontab -e username (or root)
And simply add the syntax et al (it's vi) save and exit.

cron.weekly is root's crons:
crontab -l root
You can add applications in the respective directory if you would like, I have one in cron.hourly to restore sound levels for ALSA, it works great.



Cool

and of course, google
linux tutorial cron

I think you are skipping some steps, or editing the files wrong.

ok. I copied cron.allow and cron.deny to cron.d. seems to work now.

before i was googling for cron/crontab. thanks arnold.
ok, now I get making a new crontab. thanks MasterC.
will be more careful now. thanks MrJoshua.

will try again shortly, and let you know how it turned out.

slightly less confused now
- titanium_geek

Oh, and how do I make an application to run in whichever directory? (is that a stupid question? sorry.)
can I use cron.weekly as a non root user?

titanium_geek