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From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za>
To: "Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong" <nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg>
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Subject: RE: My cron job does not work
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:22:48 +0200
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> 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
>
Try have a look at /var/log/cron and see if there is any useful error
message recorded for you :)

Patrick.


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