Need help setting up cron

[Brie Gordon]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> Robert Dailey wrote:
> > I'm currently running Ubuntu Server 8.04, and I am having difficulty
> > getting the cron program to work.
> >
> > First, I tried adding the following to /etc/crontab:
> >
> > 30 12 * * * root /my/script/file
> >
> > For testing, I put in an hour & minute that was about 2 minutes ahead
> > of the current time so I could see if it worked. First of all, I was
> > not able to find a log file *anywhere* to tell me if the task was run
> > or not.
>
> In /var/log/syslog I can see entries from CRON. While I'm using the
> desktop version, I don't think it should be different for the server
> version. If you don't see any entries, is cron running?
>
> > Secondly, the script in question created a set of directories,
> > so I checked to see if those directories were created in order to
> > verify if the script was run. However, I did not find the directories,
> > which leads me to believe the script was not executed.
>
> Usually I forget to make scripts executable. Can you run the script
> manually?
>
> > I did a little more research on google and I tried doing "crontab -e"
> > and putting the entry there, however it still did not work.
>
> Don't forget: With "crontab -e" you create a crontab for the individual
> user who invoked the command. Therefore you should leave away the "root"
> portion of the entry to make it work.
>
>
> Nils
>
> --
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
>

Try reading through this for a good background and understanding of crontab:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto


Regards,

Brie Gordon

http://granite.sru.edu/~bag6849/index.html
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20080715/c2c6af86/attachment.html>