[lug] Cron

[winrip at speakeasy.org]

Yeah I realized the minute field needed an entry 20 minutes after I sent 
the mail, to bad I was laying in bed. As far as both machines emailing me, well 
that's what I want to happen just not every few seconds. The script itself isn't 
doing any type of conditional test so there is no loop. I think the major part 
of this was the minute field being empty. 


Thanks
Bill


> ------------ Original Message -----------
> From: Chip Atkinson <chip at pupman.com>
> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 07:16:09 -0600 (MDT)
> 
> 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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