Hi all. Can anyone help me with scheduling tasks? I'm running Centos4.2 (updated via yum starting from 4.0). I know I have vixie-cron and anacron packages installed (came like that, from first install, I guess). I read the crontab syntax man page (man 5 crontab) and I made an entry as a normal user (using crontab -e) that looks like the following:
30 0 9 1 1 /bin/ls -F /home/jose > /home/jose/home-listing.txt
when I run the command "/bin/ls -F /home/jose > /home/jose/home-listing.txt" it produces a file named "home-listing.txt" in my home directory. However, if I delete the file and wait for the cron process to take place, the cron process never takes place at the exact time of scheduling. In fact I don't think it ever takes place because the file just does not appear. Am I doing something wrong? Can someone please help me! I really need to be able to schedule processes at *very* *specific* *times*. Anyone? Thank you.