Crontab not working logwatch.pl [FreeBSD 8 stable]

[Kaya Saman]

Glen Barber wrote:
> Rolf Nielsen wrote: 
>   
>> On 2010-01-13 22:04, Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
>>     
>>> did a crontab -r, a a new crontab -e, using:
>>>
>>> * * * * * $HOME/.profile ; /bin/bash /var/log/auto_auth.sh
>>> * * * * * $HOME/.profile ; /usr/bin/perl /local/sbin/logwatch.pl
>>>
>>>       
>
> In addition to the other suggestions, I'd imagine an absolute path path to
> /local/sbin/logwatch.pl is a problem as well.  Unless /local/sbin exists,
> of course.
>
> Regards,
>
>   

Many thanks for all the responses!!

I copied the data into /etc/crontab using the root syntax as described 
before and I got sent an email straight away after restarting cron!!

I am not sure why I decided to use a local crontab rather then 
system-wide one but I think I got confused somewhere along the lines 
with something??

At least it works :-)

Regards,

Kaya