[nycbug-talk] crontab woes
Dan Langille
dan
Wed Jul 20 10:43:05 EDT 2005
On 20 Jul 2005 at 0:19, Jesse Callaway wrote:
> > Always in the past I've just installed a cron to run a script, and it
> > works. I haven't done anything differently for this, and nothing's been
> > installed or changed on the box (ncftp3 was installed at buildtime)
> > since it was built. This is the first cron job I've created, so maybe
> > cron was borked from the start? But that wouldn't explain why it does
> > all the system cron jobs (weekly, monthly, etc.) with no problem.
Is this the last cronjob entry in the file? If so, I repeat: did you
press ENTER at the end of the line? The lack of a newline will
prevent the job from running.
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