[LRUG] Disrespectful cron

[Alex Pounds]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:06:01PM +0000, Andrew Stewart wrote:
> I'm trying to set up cron on a server so that I can clear out old  
> sessions, rotate log files, etc.  I've used cron lots of times before  
> but for some reason can't get it working now.  Is anyone out there  
> good at this sort of thing?

I'm going to ask a couple of questions that might be akin to teaching you
to suck eggs, but better to ask than not...

1. How are you editing your crontab? You're doing crontab -e, right? 
2. You look like you've got tabs between your time fields. Have you tried
with spaces? I don't think it matters, but it might. Use spaces between
your time fields and a tab between the time and the command: 

45 * * * *      /usr/bin/ls

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