Bad Minute Error in Crontab File

Hakim Singhji hzs202 at nyu.edu
Wed Nov 16 11:11:15 UTC 2005


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Hi All,

Now I am trying to use the user crontab... however I keep getting an error:

Terminal
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[hzs202@*****:/etc]> crontab -u hzs202 ~/bin/sig
"/home/hzs202/bin/sig":2: bad minute
errors in crontab file, can't install.

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I am not sure what the problem is, however I cannot seem to figure out
how to fix this.

Is it referring to /etc/crontab? If so here is my /etc/crontab file
which doesn't seem to have any flaws.

Terminal
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# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file.
# This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do.

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 *    * * *   root    run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6    * * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report
/etc/cron.daily
47 6    * * 7   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report
/etc/cron.weekly
52 6    1 * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report
/etc/cron.monthly
#
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Please help me out...

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Hakim Singhji
New York University

"Consequences, Schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich."
		-- "Ali Baba Bunny" [1957, Chuck Jones]
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