Schedule Jobs Using Crontab

Hakim Singhji hzs202 at nyu.edu
Wed Nov 16 03:27:21 UTC 2005


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Hi All,

I have written a small shell script to pipe the output of fortune -s to
my signature file. However, I would like to automate the rotation of
this signature file to every 10 minutes. I am trying to use cron to do
this however I am not having any luck. My /etc/crontab file looks as
follows:

Terminal:
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hzs202@##### ~? > sudo vi /etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/home/hzs202/bin

# m h dom mon dow user  command
10,20,30,40,50 * * * *  test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report
/home/hzs202/bin/sig
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This is not allowing cron to run the jobs... what exactly am I doing
wrong here?

Best,
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Hakim Singhji
New York University

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
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