[Wolves] Baffled by cron (eedjit alert)

[Paul Harrison]

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David Goodwin wrote:
 /tmp/test)

> * * * * * 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)

OK, that works fine, so obviously I am doing something wrong.

So perhaps there is something I don't understand about the way you
write tasks for cron: can you simply put command lines in, or not?  Is
it a matter of creating shell scripts instead?  Is there a protocol
for this, I can't clearly find one by Googling and quite frankly the
man page is opaque to me.

Yours in abject ignorance,

Paul

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