From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 7 12: 5:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B6437B418 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 12:05:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from jonc.itouch ([192.168.2.21]) by itouch.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 161Ywx-000JEI-00; Thu, 08 Nov 2001 09:05:27 +1300 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.itouch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA7K5QX08536; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:05:26 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:05:26 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My cron job does not work Message-ID: <20011108090526.A8451@jonc.itouch> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011107173558.00a48490@po.pacific.net.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011107173558.00a48490@po.pacific.net.sg>; from nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 05:41:44PM +0800 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, Nov 07, 2001 at 05:41:44PM +0800, 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 . > > My sample crontan configuration look as follow ..... > > > > 0 10 * * * /home/test/ftp_1030_doc > 0 17 * * * /home/test/ftp_1730_doc What's the permissions on /home/test/ftp_1030_doc? What are the contents of the file like? -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, specialisation is for insects" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message