Hmm, well, a couple observations: 1. Your cron entry is deficient in terms of the number of parameters (see http://www.pantz.org/os/linux/programs/cron.shtml for a decent explanation of how they layout) so either you condensed it when you posted the entry or Kcron messed up (my guess is more likely Kcron) 2. I don't think the leading "-" is a valid entry. I know it's used as a range delimiter, but when I ran a sample script via vcron, it got ignored:
script: ----- corran:~$ cat test.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use File::Slurp; my $date = `date`; my $file = "/home/william/test_file.txt"; write_file($file, $date); ----- crontab: ----- corran:~$ crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.19703 installed on Wed Sep 8 08:52:35 2004) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) -1 * * * * /home/william/test.pl ----- and the test file written: ----- corran:~$ ll test_file.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 william users 29 Sep 8 09:01 test_file.txt ----- Basically I think Kcron is broken :) William On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Michael Hrivnak wrote: > What does it mean for the minute parameter in a crontab entry to begin with a > "-" ? > > for example, Kcron created this... > > -10 2,14 /path/to/some/script > > The script in question calls rsync. I've been having a problem recently that > a large number of instances of rsync get started on this client, along with > an equivalent number of instances of rsync and sshd on the server side, > resulting in a DoS. When I run the script on its own though, it runs fine. > > Any clues? > > Michael > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
