Bad Minute Error in Crontab File

sean at seanmiller.net sean at seanmiller.net
Wed Nov 16 13:16:43 UTC 2005


> It's referring to this "crontab" ~/bin/sig

I would not recommend calling a crontab file something like ~/bin/sig -
it's very unintuitive, assuming that is what you meant to do and this is
not a mistake.

Personally I would also archive them so that if you muck up the crontab
you can look back at what it was before.

I would suggest...

/home/hzs202/crontabs/crontab.010905
/home/hzs202/crontabs/crontab.101105
/home/hzs202/crontabs/crontab.161105

> Also, you can edit your crontab with crontab -e instead of writing one
> and then installing it.

You can do that, but as I've just mentioned it's a bit dangerous because
you have no record of what it was before you changed it. Using files is a
"safer" method.

Sean




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