Re: [cobalt-users] Cron errors?

[baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> > It helped me in some ways :). But, the problem isn't solved. I tried the
> > following:
> >
> > Created a textfile "crontest" with the standard cronjobs. Then:

Not that I'm a whiz kid....

In the root directory of the site /home/sites/site_number

create a file called crontest with all your commands
Example

dir   ) you must use full paths to the program
ls    ) i.e., /home/sites/home/web/cgi-pub/somescript.pl
pwd   )

then type chmod a+x crontest

then type
./crontest

If the commands run...then create a file called cronme

Example
01 05 * * * /home/sites/site5/crontest

this tells cron to run crontest at 5.01 am

Now, since you don't want to mess with vi (the default editor) you
could get slick and type

crontab cronme

That way, the content of cronme becomes your cronjob

thom
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