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Re: [LUG] Crontab sanity check

 

On 10 Aug, 2011, at 12:14 pm, Martin Gautier wrote:

I've added these entries to my Ubuntu server /etc/crontab

1 23 * * * /opt/cronjob/startme
1 7 * * * /opt/cronjob/stopme

I want the first job to start at 2301hrs and the second job to start at 0700hrs.

Have I missed something? They didn't seem to run last last night :(

You must use:

crontab -e

For root crontab:
sudo crontab -e

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