From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 5 10:50:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4E2337B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:50:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.accelernet.net (smtp.accelernet.net [208.159.164.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2EC1D43EC2 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:50:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mbettinger@championelevators.com) Received: (qmail 23313 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2002 18:50:10 -0000 Received: from 208-169-162-132.hou.accelernet.net (HELO helpdesk.championelevators.com) (208.169.162.132) by smtp.accelernet.net with SMTP; 5 Dec 2002 18:50:10 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Matthew Bettinger Reply-To: mbettinger@championelevators.com Organization: Champion Elevators, inc. To: Subject: crontab -e Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:44:51 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200212051244.51766.mbettinger@championelevators.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Running FreeBSD 4.6 and having some problems with a crontab. I have a script I want to execute every 15 minutes. When I add the entry (as root) crontab -e and insert this line: */15 * * * * root /usr/libexec/rs2 >> /var/log/rs= =2Elog I get an error when trying to :wq out of crontab. /tmp/crontab.UqSmFBVMw3: 4 lines, 89 characters. crontab: installing new crontab "/tmp/crontab.UqSmFBVMw3":2: bad day-of-month crontab: errors in crontab file, can't install Do you want to retry the same edit? n crontab: edits left in /tmp/crontab.UqSmFBVMw3 Thanks for any insight. Matt=20 =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message