On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 07:31:41AM -0700, Josh Hardman wrote: > I'm wanting to create a cron job to run a script that will update my DynDNS > account. I thought I would try a test job to see if the cron is working. > Apparently it's not... From the shell I entered "crontab -e" and I saved the > following line: > > 15 * * * * mkdir /export/home/jhardman/crontest > > The file saved successfully. The crontest directory is never created. This > is my home folder and I definitely have rights to create there. > > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Do I need to start the cron service on a new > install?
You set up your cron entry just fine. You shouldn't have to do anything else. How about checking the file: /var/cron/log (you'll need to be a privileged user) to verify that your job was launched.
