Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 10:51:23 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: "bad day_of_the_month" (yes really !!!) cron questions Message-ID: <018e01bfb62c$58481b00$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>
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I'd like to have remote systems email a copy of various logs at to me at sheduled times, & I understand that "cron" is supposed to be capable of doing this. What I don't understand is exactly how to go about it. I followed the instructions in Complete FreeBSD, and even though there's a file "/usr/bin/crontab", when I run "crontab -l" I get a message "no crontab for root" Now this sounds weird, because I understood from "man cron" & "man crontab" that a bunch of processes are controlled from the root cron, so what gives here ?? I then tried running "crontab crontab", but that just told me "crontab":0: bad day_of_month crontab: errors in crontab file, can't install Thats the first I knew there was such a thing as gender in computers !!!! .... now I know there is a theory that the male of the species is affected by chronological factors as well as the more commonly known female variety, but I really don't think thats the cause of this particular problem. For what its worth I did have a bad BIOS battery a while back that caused system time to go back to 1994, but its OK right now. How do I convince crontab that the system is running the correct time now, or what else needs to be done to sort this out ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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