[Wolves] Baffled by cron (eedjit alert)

[Paul Harrison]

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David Goodwin wrote:

> If you used "crontab -e"  I believe it validates the cron file before
> putting it into use. Output from a cron will be emailed to the user.

That brings up my intended cron file...but still nothing happens with
any of the scheduled events.

James Rogers wrote:

> does "ps ax | grep cron" list "cron"?

bogl at bogubu:~$ ps ax | grep cron
 7712 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
11620 ?        S      0:01 kcron --icon=kcron -caption KCron
12841 pts/0    R+     0:00 grep cron

So, OK there it seems.


Following this:

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/CronHowto/view?searchterm=cron

I tried the

wall "Are we there yet?"

test....nothing in any terminal window.

Can anyone give me an example of a really simple cron job with an
obvious result that I can use to test all this?

Many thanks,

Paul

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