Crontab problem

bjh · 02-16-2009, 06:43 PM

I am also having cron troubles.

crond appears to be running, as per ps above, but my test crontab job doesn't act as i expect.

I have edited my user's crontab to contain one job as follows:

I have tested a command at the command line

date>>/home/bjh/test.txt

my crontab job line says:

1-59 * * * * date>>/home/bjh/test.txt

yet test.txt never accumulaes date entries as I would expect.

Is there something wrong with my crontab ?

Thanks,

Brian H.
Uxbridge Ont

dkm999 · 02-16-2009, 08:17 PM

Here is a great page that discusses many problems that you might have. With only the limited info you supplied in your post, my first guess is to look at the file permissions on your test script; as Andy says, many crond implementations will not even try to run a script with permissions that it considers to be incorrect.

My second guess would be that you might need to let crond know about your change to the cron table (with -HUP).

Let us know if you need further help after trying the suggestions in the referenced webpage.

repo · 02-17-2009, 03:30 AM

Quote:

1-59 * * * * date>>/home/bjh/test.txt

try to give the whole path to date =>

Code:

1-59 * * * * /bin/date >> /home/bjh/test.txt