User crontab file dosent run...?

[perikillo]

On 7/17/06, Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:
> In the last episode (Jul 17), perikillo said:
> > Hi people.
> >
> >  Im testing how to run scripts from cron using the crontab program,
> > the handbook say tha each user need to have a crontab file if they
> > want to run some process with the cron program:
> >
> > user-x$ crontab -e
> >
> > SHELL=/bin/sh
> > PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
> > MAILTO=root
> > */1     *       *       *       *       user-x         /bin/echo "Testing"
>
> User crontabs don't have a "username" column.  Remove "user-x" from the
> above line and it should work.
>
> You should still have gotten an error message emailed to root,
> something like "user-x: not found".  Maybe looking at /var/log/cron
> will help.
>
> --
>         Dan Nelson
>         dnelson at allantgroup.com
>

Yeaa guys thanks for your help, my job is working now just need to
figure out why is not sending the email to the root account...?

Thanks :-).