Crontab Issues
 

Hi,

I have my crontab installed in my Linux machine by knowing with the command:

"Admin..>[/ ]rpm -q vixie-cron"
= vixie-cron-3.0.1-74

i also know that the cron service is running : Admin..>[/ ]/sbin/service crond status
crond (pid 5584) is running...

The issue was i didnt know whether the cronjob i entering works or not, in another word i didnt know the cron status.

Let me explain a bit more details here:-

Entering as a "Root"

1. create a cron job using : crontab -e
2. entering the following command for a simple testing & assume that could have something dsplay on the terminal
: 1 * * * * echo wake up from crontab


Do i miss out something or anything you would like to know about the system for more information, please do let me know,
will be much more appreciated if somebody could reply on this ASAP, Thanks a million..

Mike Chan

The cron daemon isn't associated with the reminal. Better to echo something like the current time to a file and then check that.

Typically, any output from cronjobs will be sent to the crontab's owner via email. You can specify an alternate email by adding MAILTO=user to the beginning of your crontab.

Re: Crontab Issues
 

I don't use vixie, but if it is format-compatible to
other cron's I've used the colon at the beginning
of the line has got to be wrong, too :)


Cheers,
Tink

as above, anything that goes to the terminal is sent as mail

Check the logs in /var (system dependent) maybe in cron file or in messages.

cd /var/log
grep cron *