From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 2:26:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11ED437B405 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 02:26:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:26:21 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15p4jG-00011Z-00; Thu, 04 Oct 2001 10:23:42 +0100 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:23:42 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: Tar over ssh crontab - how ? In-Reply-To: <20011003192002.E16935@ns2.wananchi.com> Message-ID: 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 You're going to kick yourself. On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > The cron entry that doesn't work is: > 18 40 * * * root /home/wash/Administration/backup-ns2.sh > /var/log/ns2-backup.log 2>&1 Cron's clock is only 24-hour :-) Change the first two fields around. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk I shave with Occam's Razor. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message