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[LUG] Crontab sanity check

 

Hi

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 :(

My understanding of Debian/Ubuntu crontab is that I don't have to run "crontab" or similar tool to reread the changed file, it just works...

Cheers
Martin
PS: I've run both scripts manually and they run as expected including writing to a log file to document whether they ran at all.

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