[CentOS] cronjob not running

[SilverTip257]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Keith Keller <
kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:

> On 2013-01-22, SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If you want it to run every ten minutes use:
> > **/10* * * * * curl http://mysite.com/test.php
> > for ten minute intervals.
>
> It is not clear where the extra asterisks came from, but the syntax
> should be
>
>
I composed with HTML and bolded */10
Bold translates to putting an asterisk around the text ... resulting in
**/10* instead of the intended */10


> */10 * * * * curl ....
>
> Strictly speaking, it is not 10 minute intervals; it is every multiple
> of 10.  So if you save your crontab at 7:09, the job will still run at
> 7:10, not 7:19--it won't figure out the current time and run every ten
> minutes from then.  (Nobody here mentioned it, but I've seen it come up
> in other contexts.)
>
>
Good point ^^


>  >> and i waited for 10 mins to get a message echo to my console. the
>  message
> >> is displayed in my browser when the php script(
> http://mysite.com/test.php)
> >> is loaded via my browser.  The message is also shown on my console when
> d
> >> curl command is run direct from the console.
> >>
> >> the problem is getting the message from the cronjob.
>
> What message?  If you are hoping to see the curl output, then ...
>
> >> note , i logged in as root user.
>
> ...you need to check root's mailbox.  If you haven't checked there yet
> you should do so.  If you want to do something else with the output, you
> need to specify what that is.
>
> If it's not there, then as the previous poster mentioned check
> /var/log/cron.
>
> --keith
>
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