Ah, so I don't need the user to run as in a user specific cron? Make sense. Thanks.
> On 20021216.2203, Bob Miller said ... > > Rob Hudson wrote: > > > I'm trying to get a shell script to run every Saturday morning at 4am. > > Instead of editing /etc/crontab like I usually do, i thought I'd set it > > up in my user crontab. > > > > I ran crontab -e as my user, and added the following: > > > > 0 4 * * 6 rob /home/rob/bin/bkup > > > > Which runs my backup script. Is there something else I need to do? The > > timestamps on the files say it didn't run this weekend. > > Remove the word, "rob", unless you have a command called rob in the > system's default path. > > You should have been mailed an error when rob was not found -- is mail > set up on this machine? > > -- > Bob Miller K<bob> > kbobsoft software consulting > http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
