make sure after the last entry you have put carriage return. retstart the cron job.
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 04:53, madhvi wrote: > Hello > > I have tried automating the backup of my files by scheduling the > execution of scripts ( I am using rcp to copy the files onto another > fileserver). > > The problem encountered is :- > > I log in as root and issued the crontab -e command. Added the following > lines > 10 16 * * 3 5 /scripts/backup/twiceweekly.sh > 10 16 * * 4 /scripts/backup/weekly.sh > 50 15 30 * * /scripts/backup/monthly.sh > > These files are not being exexcuted. > > Using crontab -e, I added the following line for testing purposes on a > Thursday and > 50 14 * * 4 /scripts/backup/twiceweekly.sh > Cron is reloaded thereafter and the script is executed. However the > other scheduled scripts are not executed. > No error messages are seen in /var/log/cron as well. > > Grateful if someone could help me with this problem. > > Regards > madhvi _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
