Re: [expert] cron for users

[Andrew George]

run crontab -e 
then you get a VI style screen to put in your cron entries
I'm not even sure what crontab myfile.txt would do
the entry should go into /var/cron/username


On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Gavin Clark wrote:

> 
> hi,
> 
> I can't get cron to work for users.
> 
> I added /etc/cron.d/cron.deny with no entries
> 
> I ran #crontab myfile.txt as the user
> #crontab -l shows it worked
> 
> 15 * * * *    /usr/bin/lynx -dump http://server.com/myscript.php > /dev/null
> 
> but when the time comes nothing happens.
> 
> I just want lynx to trigger a php script every minute - every 30 seconds
> would be better.
> 
> what's the trick?
> 
> thanks,
> Gavin
> 
>