Re: [CONFUSED NEWBIE] Cron

From: Ali Alphan Bayazit (listeci_at_bayazit.net)
Date: 11/06/04

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Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 01:41:46 -0500

    On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 12:54 -0700, Justin Guerin wrote:
    > > 0 0 * * * root /usr/lib/cgi-bin/send_hit_count.cgi
    > >
    > Oops. Check out the man page for cron and especially crontab(5).
    >
    > > 1. send_hit_count.cgi apparently is not being executed. It works
    > > interactively, but there are no messages that would indicate that it
    > > was executed by cron. What do I need to do, in order to have cron
    > > execute send_hit_count.cgi?
    > >
    > Fix your crontab entry above to:
    > 0 0 * * * /usr/lib/cgi-bin/send_hit_count.cgi
    That depends on whether it is a user crontab (crontab -e etc.),
    or a system crontab (/etc/crontab).
    For the latter, the original entry seems correct, maybe missing a
    newline at the end.
    -aab 

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