From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 7 3: 2:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE3537B418 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 03:02:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-206.wobline.de [212.68.69.217]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id fA7B2ep05288; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 12:02:40 +0100 Received: from howie.ncptiddische.net (howie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.3]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA7B2lD04741; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 12:02:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: from howie.ncptiddische.net (howie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.3]) by howie.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA7B2Gr00383; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 12:02:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 12:02:16 +0100 (CET) From: Nils Holland To: Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My cron job does not work In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011107173558.00a48490@po.pacific.net.sg> Message-ID: <20011107115648.N330-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, 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 . I assume that you are *not* talking about adding additional jobs in /etc/crontab, but rather about creating crontab files for individual users. In that case, you will have to install that user's crontab file using the crontab(1) command. Have a look at the manpage of the command, it should tell you what exactly you need to do in order to install and maintain crontabs for individual users. The syntax of the example crontab file you posted in your original messages seemed correct, however, I guess that your problems came from not properly installing your crontab file using crontab(1). Greetings Nils Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message