Crontab not working??

[Kaya Saman]

Thanks, I inputted the data as you suggested so now I will wait until 
the time specified to see if it ran or not!

Regards,

Kaya

Chuck Swiger wrote:
> 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,
>