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skazhy

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From: Riga, Latvia

Registered: 2009-07-01

Posts: 46

`failed parsing crontab` error

Hi!

I made a script that downloads an image, and added it to crontab -e -u skazhy
like this:

* /10 * * * * /home/skazhy/script

But it does not complete and I get this error ir crond.log:

Mar  1 14:38:01 myhost crond[3077]: failed parsing crontab for user skazhy: /10 * * * * /home/skazhy/script

The script has no errors. I haven't used cron before, what's wrong here?

vik_k

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From: Pune, India

Registered: 2009-07-12

Posts: 227

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Re: `failed parsing crontab` error

there is a typo in the crontab entry, a space between first asterisk and "/10"

it shuld be

*/10 * * * * <script>

Last edited by vik_k (2010-03-01 14:11:06)

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