From: Martin M. <mar...@de...> - 2003-09-25 07:34:03
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Hi Jamie, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote: >> I will send you other details via feedback if necessary ... > >What happens if you run crontab -e at some user and add a cron job=20 >like : > >@hourly ls -l >/dev/null > >Does it accept the cron job, or complain that the new line is not valid? ###################################################################### Test as "macmewes": $ crontab -e @hourly ls -l >/dev/null =46ile /tmp/crontab.3500 saved. crontab: installing new crontab $ crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.3500 installed on Thu Sep 25 09:28:56 2003) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) @hourly ls -l >/dev/null ###################################################################### Test as "root" for "macmewes" which webmin would do .. # crontab -u macmewes -e @hourly ls -l >/dev/null =46ile /tmp/crontab.3670 saved. crontab: installing new crontab # crontab -u macmewes -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.3670 installed on Thu Sep 25 09:32:08 2003) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) @hourly ls -l >/dev/null ###################################################################### Works fine ... kind regards Martin Mewes --=20 Novacote Flexpack - Division of COIM Deutschland GmbH c/o IT/IS-Department - Hamburg - Germany |