[Techtalk] Newbie & crontab

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:30:55PM +1100 or thereabouts, Raena Lea-Shannon wrote:
> 
> I had a look at Conor's HOWTO for mondoarchive I understood the gist but I am 
> afraid that was a bit too difficult to fullly adapt/comprehend.

To use this, do something like:

at now + 10 minutes
Tivo-cron
<CTRL><d>

now do 'at -l' to get a list of jobs with for you.  There should be just
one.  Do 'ls -l /var/spool/at/' as root and look for the file owned by you
and called something like "a30000172b".  Copy this to your home directory
(or wherever) and call it something helpful (like tivo-cronscript).  Now
call that with cron and make your changes in Tivo-cron.
 
> 
> I called it Tivo-cron. 
> 
> and made a crontab in root
> 
> 30 21 * * 2   Tivo-cron
> 
> This too failed.

Did you check root's email?  There should be error messages in there.
Alternatively, capture the output from cron like this:

crontab -e
30 21 * * 2   Tivo-cron > /root/tivo.out 2>&1

"> /root/tivo.out" says "send standard output to /root/tivo.out" and "2>&1"
says "send standard error output there too"

Have a look in that file for error messages after the cron run.

Conor
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