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Kevin Wang
rightsock at gmail.com
Wed Aug 18 17:44:01 UTC 2004
well, first of all, the entries don't look correct. if you're using
crontab, the fields from left to right are:
minute 0-59
hour 0-23
day of month 1-31
month 1-12 (or names, see below)
day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names)
command
right now, your command lines are trying to execute 'root' which
probably is not what you want. The usage of a username in front of
the command is for /etc/cron.d/FILE entries only. man 5 crontab for
more specifics.
Note also, that everything MUST be on one line. I'm betting that you
line-wrapped the lines. Join them back together, and thigns will be
happier.
- Kevin
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:56:42 +0100, Jim Higson <jh at 333.org> wrote:
> I'm adding backups to my crontab with crontab -e called as root. This brought up the editor and I entered:
>
> 30 05 * * * root pdumpfs /home/jim /mnt/backup-hdd/home/jim >/mnt/backup-hdd/homejim.log 2>/mnt/backup-hdd/homejim.errlog
> 00 06 * * * root pdumpfs /etc /mnt/backup-hdd/etc >/mnt/backup-hdd/etc.log 2>/mnt/backup-hdd/etc.errlog
>
> I'm trying to backup my home dir daily at 5:30am and /etc at 6am
>
> When I save+exit from the editor crontab says:
>
> crontab: installing new crontab
> "/tmp/crontab.3410":2: bad day-of-month
> errors in crontab file, can't install.
> Do you want to retry the same edit?
>
> I can't see the problem here. In both cases I have '*' as the day-of-month
>
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