From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 27 5: 5:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imf10bis.bellsouth.net (mail110.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.58.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E834D37B405 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 05:05:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leimbacd@bellsouth.net) Received: from mutt.home.net ([208.63.160.25]) by imf10bis.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.01.01 201-252-104) with ESMTP id <20010727120614.EMTT29867.imf10bis.bellsouth.net@mutt.home.net>; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 08:06:14 -0400 Received: (from dave@localhost) by mutt.home.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6RC9pO00887; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 07:09:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dave) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Leimbach To: "Matthew King" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab Help Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 07:09:51 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <000801c1166f$2d0afbc0$0200a8c0@ghostbox> In-Reply-To: <000801c1166f$2d0afbc0$0200a8c0@ghostbox> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01072707095100.00642@mutt.home.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 should really be using "crontab -e" to edit your crontab entries. Otherwise the crontab program may not add your new commands to the queue of jobs to be done. Having never probed the innards of my crontab files manually I am not exactly sure what it is that you posted. Dave On Friday 27 July 2001 02:36, you wrote: > hello for some reason my crontab is working > this is what my crontab looks like atm > > # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD > > # > > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.21.2.3 2000/12/08 10:56:07 obrien Exp $ > > # > > SHELL=/bin/sh > > PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin > > HOME=/var/log > > # > > #minute hour mday month wday who command > > # > > */5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun > > # > > # rotate log files every hour, if necessary > > 0 * * * * root newsyslog > > # > > # do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance > > 1 3 * * * root periodic daily > > 15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly > > 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly > > # > > # time zone change adjustment for wall cmos clock, > > # does nothing, if you have UTC cmos clock. > > # See adjkerntz(8) for details. > > 1,31 0-5 * * * root adjkerntz -a > > #mrtg > > */5 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/mrtg /usr/local/etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg > > #bsduptime > > */60 * * * * root /home/admin/bsduptime RevGhost WhipLasH > > #To keep my ADSL connection running > > 0-59/2 * * * * root /usr/local/etc/pingmonitor.sh > > #Qmail > > 40 * * * * /var/vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp 2>&1 > /dev/null > > # to rehash vhosts > > * 2 * * * root /usr/local/sbin/apachectl graceful > > # To Rehash Webalizer > > */30 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/webalizer > > # To Rehash OMF2097 webalizer > > */30 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/webalizer -c > /usr/local/etc/omf2097.webalizer.conf > > > > is there any thing wrong with that? > > > > Matthew ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message