Hi people!

I have done some java program that reads stuff from different webpages and inserts some of the retrieved data into a database. I did the java stuff in eclipse and exported it as an executable jar file.

Which works fine if i go (in terminal) to the directory where the jar file is and write

I can see that the database is updated with new data.

My problem appears when I try to run it from the crontab. I can't figure out what to write to make it work.

This is what I have wrote in the crontab....

edit the file with...

I have tried different alternatives but without making the java code to run...
So, anyone that can help me out with the right crontab statement???

thanks

sueco

Maybe you need the full path to the jar file?

For example:
*/5 * * * * /home/xxx/CODE/Database/java -jar /home/xxx/CODE/Database/database.jar

Thanks for the help, I figured it out now.
I don't needed the path to Java.

*/5 * * * * java -jar /home/xxx/CODE/Database/database.jar

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