Schedule Jobs Using Crontab

[Hakim Singhji]

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Filipe Bonjour wrote:
> Looks to me like the 6th field should be the user, not the script name.
> Here's a couple of lines I added to the crontab on another box that work
> fine:

What do you mean the 6th field should be a user not a script name? Do
you mean that I should create some kind of .crontab file and in
/etc/crontab assign the user to be run? I'm not quite getting it.

> I think your cron is trying to run a command "-x" as a user "test".

Why isn't it running the script... are you saying I should create a user
crontab file?

> By the way, if this is your /etc/crontab, you're missing the lines I've
> got, to run commands out of /etc/cron.monthly/daily/hourly. They are
> sometimes important.

No, no I have those lines /etc/cron.hourly, etc. I just didn't add them
to this post. Didn't think it was important.

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Hakim Singhji
New York University

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
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