On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 01:45:51PM -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > Well, I hope no news is good news, because I might have a problem elsways. > > I have my mail forwarded to a user account, which I check with kmail. > Since I am receiving no daily reports, does this mean that none of my daily > jobs are running?
Instead of cron you can use `at' for one time tasks. You can test your basic setup using that. If at does't work, cron quite probably does't work either. Make a shell script and make it executable, e.g.: $ echo "#! /bin/sh > echo Hello world" > tmp.sh $ chmod +x tmp.sh Then tell `at' to run the commands in that shell script now: $ at -f tmp.sh now warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh job 91 at 2004-11-28 23:53 You should now get a mail saying "Hello World". Instead of `now' you can specify a time like 0:30. HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
