On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 01:01 -0500, Peter Arremann wrote: > On Monday 09 January 2006 00:51, Jose Alburquerque wrote: > > 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. > > Looks good to me... are you sure you have permissions for the output file to > be written? Is cron running? what is the output from /var/log/cron for that > timeframe? > right ... the time that would have run was ... Monday, Jan 9, at 00:30 on the time zone set on your machine ... is that what you wanted. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060109/aa44b113/attachment-0005.sig>