cron not working (RedHat 9) 1

[bitwise]

System: Red Hat 9
Kernel: 2.4.20-8

As root, I edit the /etc/crontab file and add my line:

01 13 * * * /root/myscript.sh

Also, the crond server is running; however, my script never runs. What am I missing? Is there a service in chkconfig that I need to also turn on?

Thanks,
-bitwise

 

[Chacalinc]

issue [tt]crontab -e[/tt] in order to edit the crontab.

Cheers.

 

[bitwise]

I've tried crontab -e to edit the crontab, but I'm no so sure that is the correct way to do it in Red Hat Linux. In anycase, crontab -e doesn't work either. It allows me to input my cron command; however, it never runs. Any thoughts?

-bitwise

 

[mrregan]

try this:

01 13 * * * root /root/myscript.sh

 

[jstreich]

mrregan has the write syntax for a crontab -e ...

Cron has two variations, there is the crontab for users and then there is application spesific cron jobs that are set in /etc/cron.* files. It is recommended that you use crontab for any regular schedualing (even as root), and that you don't edit the file directly, but use the crontab command.

The fields are:

minute of hour
hour of day
day of month
month
day of week
user
command
[arguments]

since your script isn't a user, I'm suprised your not getting e-mailed errors from cron.

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[LawnBoy]

Time to expose my ignorance... mrregan said

01 13 * * * root /root/myscript.sh

Would someone kindly explain to me just what this does?

 

[stefanwagner]

Every day (of month, week) and every month, at 13:01 run as root /root/myscript.sh


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[zeland]

Is your cron daemon running? Usually I'll create a schedule file and import it using crontab -u [username] schedule.txt.


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