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Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 14:54:29 +1200
From: Jonathan Chen <Jonathan.Chen@itouch.co.nz>
To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: "bad day_of_the_month" (yes really !!!) cron questions
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References: <018e01bfb62c$58481b00$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <20000505131420.A798@jonc.itouch.co.nz> <01aa01bfb632$612c3390$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>
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On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 01:34:00AM +0000, Doug Young wrote:
>
> >
> > > I then tried running "crontab crontab", but that just told me
> > > "crontab":0: bad day_of_month
> > > crontab: errors in crontab file, can't install
> >
> > This tends to indicate an error in your crontab file format. If you
> > send it to the list, betcha we can find out what it is.
> 
> attached hereto ...... nothing peculiar I can see, and I did try running
> the
> commands on a few different machines too, some 3.2 & some 4.0, exactly same
> response every time
> 
> (See attached file: crontab)

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).
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>


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