| 00:15.54 | pmazer | dumb question: how do i set up a cron job? |
| 00:25.37 | mackstann | crontab -e |
| 00:25.41 | mackstann | man 5 crontab for the syntax to type in that file |
| 00:25.46 | mackstann | one cron job per line |
| 00:25.52 | mackstann | save and quit |
| 00:50.17 | *** join/#aegis pmazer (~pmazer@c-24-99-87-189.atl.client2.attbi.com) |
| 00:50.51 | pmazer | is there any secret to getting the crons job to start running? should it automatically, or do i need to restart vixie-cron? |
| 00:52.56 | mackstann | shouldn't have to do anything |
| 00:52.58 | mackstann | at least i don't |
| 00:53.56 | pmazer | weird... it hasn't done it yet (execute fetchmail to download mail from server) and i have it going once a minute (* * * * *) just to see if it works |
| 00:54.07 | pmazer | i just restarted vixie-cron to see if that's the problem |
| 00:54.27 | pmazer | nope, didn't work and it's been 2 minutes |
| 00:55.57 | pmazer | could the problem be that there's no entry in /etc/crontab for my crontab? |
| 00:56.09 | mackstann | dunno |