evelin wrote: > ok this is what i did but still not working > > export EDITOR=/usr/bin/gedit > > contrab -e yeso > (yeso is my user) > inside of gedit : > > 21 8 * * * gedit > (gedit for beeing an example to see it if works) > > but it doesn work, m i missing something >
gedit is not a good command to test, because it would try to start an editor when it is not connected to a terminal. Try this: 0 * * * * date >> /tmp/dateoutput Then check the file /tmp/dateoutput every hour. You should see an entry added every hour as it runs the command. -- Alan
