* V Vasant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can someone please tell me how does one automate tasks using the
> crontab . I did write a cron file , but I don't seem to get any
> output.Why?
> The file was just this
> 01 * * * * vasant echo "hi"
It might have worked, although I don't know what you mean by 'vascant'
in the cron line. You didn't see any output because you didn't tell
it where to send the output.
Try this...
0-59/2 * * * * echo "Mr Crontab wrote this at `date`" >> ~/cron.out
This will echo that line along with the output of the date command to
a file called 'cron.out' in you home directory every two minutes.
To see that it is working...
touch ~/cron.out
tail -f ~/cron.out
For some good examples look at man crontab
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