On Thursday 24 March 2005 07:47 pm, Leo Mauler wrote:
And apparently "at" is a lot easier to get going: I think I'm doing the cron thingy right and I can't get any jobs to run (not even "run ls every minute from 6pm to 7pm on any month, day of the month, or day of the week.").
Even if you did, you wouldn't necessarily see any output unless you had mail working on the sytem - cron mails the output to the owner of the crontab.
I would suggest that first you get the command you want cron to run working from a shell file - sometimes there are tricky escapes required for arguments that aren't required on the command line - then make sure that you use crontab -e to create the file. Also, make sure cron is actually running (chkconfig or rc-status should tell you).