In the last episode (Jul 17), perikillo said:
> Hi people.
>
> Im testing how to run scripts from cron using the crontab program,
> the handbook say tha each user need to have a crontab file if they
> want to run some process with the cron program:
>
> user-x$ crontab -e
>
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
> MAILTO=root
> */1 * * * * user-x /bin/echo "Testing"
User crontabs don't have a "username" column. Remove "user-x" from the
above line and it should work.
You should still have gotten an error message emailed to root,
something like "user-x: not found". Maybe looking at /var/log/cron
will help.
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Dan Nelson
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