Josh Hardman wrote:
> I'm wanting to create a cron job to run a script that will update my DynDNS
> account. I thought I would try a test job to see if the cron is working.
> Apparently it's not... From the shell I entered "crontab -e" and I saved the
> following line:
>
> 15 * * * * mkdir /export/home/jhardman/crontest
>
> The file saved successfully. The crontest directory is never created. This
> is my home folder and I definitely have rights to create there.
>
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Do I need to start the cron service on a new
> install?
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Just a though but what does ps say as in:
paulj at hb-.humanities.manchester:~$ ps -eaf | grep cron
root 272 1 0 Sep 26 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
Paul
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