Crontab not working??
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Thu Jan 14 00:30:31 UTC 2010
Hi--
On Jan 13, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Kaya Saman wrote:
> It didn't work so I tried to cut down areas which I suspected might not work and ended up with the syntax below for root:
>
> crontab -l shows:
>
> @reboot root /usr/local/sbin/logwatch.pl
> 02 4 * * * root /usr/local/sbin/logwatch.pl
You're using the syntax for a system-wide crontab, ie, /etc/crontab. Per-user crontabs do not have the middle field listing the user to run as; re-run crontab -e and try this instead:
@reboot /usr/local/sbin/logwatch.pl
02 4 * * * /usr/local/sbin/logwatch.pl
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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