Problem with using vixie cron
 

Im trying to make a cron job for the first time. Im using gentoo with vixie cron. I start the cron deamon fine.

I want to send an email every half hour. From what ive read I put the script into the /etc/cron.d direcotry. The script has been tested and is working.

the script is

test.sh

*/30 * * * * root /root/scripts/email.sh



and email.sh has

#!/bin/bash
email -q -s "test subject" myemail@email.com < testlog.txt

After this did not work I read some more and did

crontab -e
*/30 * * * * root /root/scripts/email.sh

rather then have cron run your script... Run "crontab" and add the line itself.

email -q -s "test subject" myemail@email.com < testlog.txt

Anything you can successfully run from CLI you can add to cron just adding the time... Here is a sample of how I send an e-mail to myself everyday at 6:15pm

15 18 * * Mon-Fri cat ~/docs/tips.txt | mail -s "tips" kencaz@linuxmail.org

KC

Worked. Cool thanks