[lug] Cron

[Chip Atkinson]

I think you need to have the minute field filled in.  What you have
specified is that at 11:00 pm, for every minute there is (60), this script
will fire off.  That doesn't answer your behavior though.  Is there some
sort of .forward file that's causing mail to bounce?  Try tail -f
/var/log/maillog to watch what's going on.  Also look at your script.
Does it loop indefinitely, or if not that, does the loop condition ever
return false?

Chip

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, winrip wrote:

> I'm wondering what is the correct pattern to use for cron.
> 
> from my understanding it should be;
> minutes hours days months weekday    program
> 
> So that being said I added a script to run using crontab -e, and added;
> * 23 * * * /usr/local/blah blah blah
> 
> For some reason the script has been running every 45 seconds as near as I can
> tell. It's really a bad thing but I have two machines emailing me every 45
> seconds, so I'm just wondering if I have set this up correctly. Now there isn't
> anything in the sript that has anything to do with time frames at all so I know
> it's not in the script.
> 
> If anyone has any advice..........
> 
> Thanks
> Bill
> 
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