Re: Cron job not working

Vilmos Soti wrote:

Starrena <starr.corbin@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Aug 15, 4:27 pm, Starrena <starr.cor...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I do a crontab -e and write:

0 0 1,15 * root /v/filename.sh > /tmp/directory/logfile.txt

Check out crontab(5). I don't think you need the "root" directive.
Crontab(5) mentions that it exists only in /etc/crontab but not in
the other cron files.

0 0 1,15 * * root /v/filename.sh > /tmp/directory/logfile.txt

OK.

Vilmos

You can include the following comments at the beginning of your crontab
jobs. It will help you to remember the format and the meaning of each
field :

# minute (0-59),
# | hour (0-23),
# | | day of the month (1-31),
# | | | month of the year (1-12),
# | | | | day of the week (0-6 with 0=Sunday).
# | | | | | commands
0 0 1,15 * * /v/filename.sh > /tmp/directory/logfile.txt

If your script needs to be executed with root rights make it owned by root
and give it suid bit. Or put it as a cron job of root itself.


.

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