[snip] > > *** I actually found my problem. I had to specify the cron like this > > 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /bin/touch /tmp/i-was-here > > intead of > > 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * touch /tmp/i-was-here > > This part is working ok now. > Usually the reason is that in your fist line of crontab you might not have
#!/bin/sh I have found if I have that as the first line I usually don't have to type out the entire path. > > *** My problem here is that when I create user accounts on this web server, > they cannot run "crontab -e" . I get the error message > > "bash: crontab: command not found" > > There is no cron.allow, and cron.deny on this server in /etc/ . So anyone on > this server can run cron. Right ?? > > At the moment I tried something different that works instead of > crontab -e, but I want them to be able to run "crontab -e" command. > > Louis. It sounds like their profile is not configued correctly. all my users can run crontab, and execute crontab -e -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
