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Date:      Wed, 07 Nov 2001 14:37:12 -0600
From:      jacks@sage-american.com
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>, Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong <nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: My cron job does not work
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20011107143712.010dbb30@mail.sage-american.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011108090526.A8451@jonc.itouch>
References:  <5.1.0.14.0.20011107173558.00a48490@po.pacific.net.sg> <5.1.0.14.0.20011107173558.00a48490@po.pacific.net.sg>

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Well, the question I thought was too obvious was, have you first tried the
command to see if it works? # /home/test/ftp_1730_doc

At 09:05 AM 11.8.2001 +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 05:41:44PM +0800, Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong wrote:
>> Hi ;
>>     I have configured crontab to run specific task at specific time under 
>> normal user account rather then root .  But the cron job seems does not 
>> execute at specific time .
>>     Could somebody explain to me why the cron job does not exexcute ? 
>> Please advise .
>> 
>> My sample crontan configuration look as follow .....
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 0 10 * * *  /home/test/ftp_1030_doc
>> 0 17 * * *  /home/test/ftp_1730_doc
>
>
>What's the permissions on /home/test/ftp_1030_doc? What are the
>contents of the file like?
>-- 
>Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Server Admin

Sage-American
http://www.sage-american.com
jacks@sage-american.com

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