Re: [expert] Crontab Broken in 7.2?

2001-01-20 Thread David E. Fox
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 11:41, you wrote: can't help you but i have a similar problem, i have added a line to /etc/crontab to start setiathome and the command works fine off the command line but the job never starts, all the other regular mandrake stuff seems to happen fine though, this

Re: [expert] Crontab Broken in 7.2?

2001-01-19 Thread bascule
never tried webmin before, just took a look and i'm wondering what you can't do from a browser (solve the middle east crisis perhaps?) bascule In the "for what its worth" department, I have created a number of cron jobs in Webmin and have *never* had a problem. Maybe give that a try

Re: Re[2]: [expert] Crontab Broken in 7.2?

2001-01-19 Thread bascule
hmm, i think it was either kedit or kwrite, so you are saying don't enter c/rs? or do? how to insert a line -if desired- between two others without doing so, assuming another answer than 'use emacs'? and (being a newbie) i have to ask the exact meaning of 'terminated', does that mean use a

Re: Re[4]: [expert] Crontab Broken in 7.2?

2001-01-19 Thread bascule
thats good, as the house i share doesn't offer 'cremation on the premises' (oooh - a film joke!) 'terminated' is, unfortunately, short for 'terminated by a c/r' - sorry that was not clear. i have examined the reference to the setiathome job in webmin and the details were entered as i

Re: [expert] Crontab Broken in 7.2?

2001-01-19 Thread Chris Spencer
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, bascule wrote: I think thats a cron job set waaay into the future. :) -Chris never tried webmin before, just took a look and i'm wondering what you can't do from a browser (solve the middle east crisis perhaps?) bascule In the "for what its worth" department, I

Re: Re[4]: [expert] Crontab Broken in 7.2?

2001-01-19 Thread bascule
weh hey! it works... but.. why.. spock...? bascule i have examined the reference to the setiathome job in webmin and the details were entered as i would have entered them making the cronjob this way in the first place breathe so as an experiment i have left the entry alone choosing

RE: [expert] Crontab Broken in 7.2?

2001-01-18 Thread John Hart
Then "crontab -l" to see if it took... John Hart -Original Message- From: pfortin@[207.144.175.62] [mailto:pfortin@[207.144.175.62]]On Behalf Of Pierre Fortin Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 5:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Crontab Bro

Re: [expert] Crontab Broken in 7.2?

2001-01-17 Thread bascule
can't help you but i have a similar problem, i have added a line to /etc/crontab to start setiathome and the command works fine off the command line but the job never starts, all the other regular mandrake stuff seems to happen fine though, this has only been since i reinstalled 7.2 as it

Re: [expert] Crontab Broken in 7.2?

2001-01-17 Thread Ron Heron
Try writing the command into a script file, make it executable, and reference the cron to that. --- "Russell \"Elik\" Rademacher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the Crontab broken in the Mandrake 7.2? For past few days after I installed the new crontabs for one user and another as other,

Re: [expert] Crontab Broken in 7.2?

2001-01-17 Thread Chris Spencer
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, bascule wrote: can't help you but i have a similar problem, i have added a line to /etc/crontab to start setiathome and the command works fine off the command line but the job never starts, all the other regular mandrake stuff seems to happen fine though, this has only

Re[2]: [expert] Crontab Broken in 7.2?

2001-01-17 Thread Rusty Carruth
bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can't help you but i have a similar problem, i have added a line to /etc/crontab to start setiathome and the command works fine off the command line but the job never starts, all the other regular mandrake stuff seems to happen fine though, this has only

Re: [expert] Crontab Broken in 7.2?

2001-01-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
Is the Crontab broken in the Mandrake 7.2? For past few days after I installed the new crontabs for one user and another as other, it simply do not run at all. Did you just edit the files, or did you use "crontab -e userid"...?? The latter works for me. Pierre

[expert] Crontab Broken in 7.2?

2001-01-17 Thread Russell \Elik\ Rademacher
Is the Crontab broken in the Mandrake 7.2? For past few days after I installed the new crontabs for one user and another as other, it simply do not run at all. Here is the entry that I set up in the crontab as follows: Elik's Crontab: 25 13 17 * * tar -zcpf