cron tasks not running

From: dlrubin (dlrubin_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/21/04

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    Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:12:10 -0700

    I'm running Redhat AS 3.0 and am confused by the instructions in the manual
    on setting up cron. The docs suggest that all I need do is add additional
    lines to /etc/crontab or drop a file with command lines into /etc/cron.d. If
    I do that, my new cron tasks do not run (however, the tasks in cron.daily,
    cron.monthly, etc do run). So the question is: how do I add more tasks to
    the crontab file or to a file in /etc/cron.d and get them to be run? (Also,
    I don't understand the point of the /etc/cron.d directory if all scheduled
    tasks can be listed in /etc/crontab).
    Thanks,
    Daniel

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