[Wolves] Baffled by cron (eedjit alert)

[David Goodwin]

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

Run : "crontab -e"

(It will open your crontab up in what ever you have $EDITOR set to,
possibly vi/vim or emacs).

Put in it :

* * * * * /bin/touch /tmp/test

(Should run each minute, and create (and update the timestamp) on
/tmp/test)

Alternatively :

* * * * * echo "test cron"

(minute, hour, dayOfMonth, month, dayOfWeek) (See "man 5 crontab")

Which should mail things to "you" (you may have to run "mail" to read
them, unless you've setup your mail server to forward mail onto
somewhere useful)

Good luck,
David.

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