Rob Hudson wrote: > I'm trying to get a shell script to run every Saturday morning at 4am. > Instead of editing /etc/crontab like I usually do, i thought I'd set it > up in my user crontab. > > I ran crontab -e as my user, and added the following: > > 0 4 * * 6 rob /home/rob/bin/bkup > > Which runs my backup script. Is there something else I need to do? The > timestamps on the files say it didn't run this weekend.
Remove the word, "rob", unless you have a command called rob in the system's default path. You should have been mailed an error when rob was not found -- is mail set up on this machine? -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
