Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 13:52:23 +1000 From: "Richard Grace" <rgrace@itworks.com.au> To: "Jonathan Chen" <Jonathan.Chen@itouch.co.nz>, "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: "bad day_of_the_month" (yes really !!!) cron questions Message-ID: <NDBBILBEBIHJBLOEIKKCIEBBCHAA.rgrace@itworks.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20000505145429.B798@jonc.itouch.co.nz>
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> Hang on there, you've just attached a binary executable! I hope you're > not trying to feed *that* to crontab(1). You need to have a file having > the contents with something like: > > # > # Personal crontab > # > # Environment > > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin: > /home/jonc/bin > # > #Min Hr MnDy Month WkDy Command > */5 6-20 * * * fetchmail --silent > > /dev/null 2>&1 > > and feed that file to crontab(1). Yep, or 'crontab -e' will let you edit your crontab using $EDITOR. There are also environment variables for each crontab, here's one I use to run scripts... --- cut here --- # Richard's experimental snmp code SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=rgrace@itworks.com.au 40 * * * * /home/rgrace/port-acct/port-acct.pl 2>&1 --- cut here --- This runs a script at 40 mins past the hour, using /bin/sh and sends the stdout and stderr to me via email. I have a .forward file which then sends the mail to other relevant people. Have fun with cron... Richard Grace To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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