[Techtalk] Newbie & crontab

[Raena Lea-Shannon]

Hi,

I am trying to create a simple crontab to record from my TV card. I am 
struggling with getting cron to work. I have searched lots and am getting 
more confused. I am running SuSE 8.2. I have learnt so far that all its 
system cron deamon things are run set up in /etc/cron.blahs. 

I am using # crontab -u User -e to edit and it creates the crontab files  in 
/var/spool/cron/User.

I was using the 3rd Edition of O'Reilly's Running Linux and using its examples 
of a crontab format so I tried this:

crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.524 installed on Mon Nov 15 20:38:39 2004)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
#TIVO Run mencoder script to record from TV.

21 20 * * mon mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l:input=1:width=480:height=324 -oac 
copy -ovc copy -endpos 00:40:00 -o /home/Raena/TEMP/tvprogram.avi


Then I had a look at the etc/crontab files and saw that the fomat was 
different so I tried creating a root user crontab like this:


# crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.1223 installed on Mon Nov 15 22:48:25 2004)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
#TIVO Run mencoder script to record from TV.

21 20 * * mon     root  mencoder tv:// -tv 
driver=v4l:input=1:width=480:height=324 -oac copy -ovc copy -endpos 00:40:00 
-o /home/Raena/TEMP/test.avi

Nothing happened :-(
Any advice would be enormously appreciated.
Thanks
Raena