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Hello.
I run "crontab -e" and add below task:
* * * * * /bin/ping google.com
and it mean that my system must ping google every day and every time but I can't see the result!!!
How can I see it?
IIRC the default is that output is sent as a local e-mail. Check your local mailbox.
You might even be able to trick it into showing a graphical dialog by setting the DISPLAY variable, assuming it is the same account that you are running the desktop environment on:
Altho if I were to do it, I'd create a bash script so that you can get the time/date in that resulting file too.
Also you say that it must ping google everyday, this is incorrect, you've set this up to run every minute. You would need to set an explicit time to make it daily, such as
Altho if I were to do it, I'd create a bash script so that you can get the time/date in that resulting file too.
Also you say that it must ping google everyday, this is incorrect, you've set this up to run every minute. You would need to set an explicit time to make it daily, such as
IIRC the default is that output is sent as a local e-mail. Check your local mailbox.
You might even be able to trick it into showing a graphical dialog by setting the DISPLAY variable, assuming it is the same account that you are running the desktop environment on:
Depending on your distro and setup you may have a mail server running but set to only deal with mail internal to the machine itself. The normal way for cron to communicate with people is to send e-mails containing the output from any cron jobs if there was any output.
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