cron recipe error

[Chris Dawson]

This is only for the system crontab, correct?  I am using this in my
user account crontab.  From the man page under heading "EXAMPLE SYSTEM
CRON FILE":

...
 # This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do
...

So, I don't think I need the username field, right?

Chris

On 2/22/06, C Hamel <yogich at sc2000.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 February 2006 11:40, Chris Dawson wrote:
> > 5 1 * * 0 /home/cdawson/script.rb > /home/cdawson/`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`.log
> >
> > I want this to run on Sundays at 1:05 am. The script is executable.
> > It doesn't seem to run, and nothing is logged in the log file.  Any
> > idea why?
> >
> > I think that I tried things like:
> >
> > 5 1 * * sun /home/cdawson/script.rb > /home/cdawson/`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`.log
> >
> > But this didn't work either.  After reading the man page, maybe "sun"
> > was capitalized.  Can anyone tell me the correct recipe?
> >
> > Either way, it seems like the first one should run.  Man page says "0
> > or 7 is Sun..."
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> For one thing, there are five fields prior to specification of the prg you
> wish to run.  Also, make certain your script is executable via permissions.
> I run nightly backups on /home and have done it thus:
>
> 30 05  * * *    root    home_backup >/dev/null 2>&1
>
> HTH...
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