crontab

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Sunday 27 June 2004 10:53 pm, Muhammad Rizwan Khan wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am trying to add following entry in crontab, with this command crontab -e
> 0 23 * * * /root/MyApplication
>
> But its not working for me as i described it in the above entry, although
> MyApplication is running fine and there is no problem in running this
> application through command line. Can i see any logs related to crontab
> from some wehre in my system.

check /var/log/cron 

also check the mail for root on that host. Output (if any) from an application 
run by cron is mailed to the root account on that host.

RDB


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Reuben D. Budiardja
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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