From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 7 1:35:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sunny.pacific.net.sg (sunny.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9CD037B417 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 01:35:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.pacific.net.sg (smtp2.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.169]) by sunny.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id fA79ZQi07838 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 17:35:26 +0800 (SGT) Received: from ap_280868.pacific.net.sg ([203.208.143.98]) by smtp2.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id fA79ZQq32639 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 17:35:26 +0800 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011107173558.00a48490@po.pacific.net.sg> X-Sender: nchee_hoong@po.pacific.net.sg X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 17:41:44 +0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong Subject: My cron job does not work Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message