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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!news.luth.se!usenet From: murduth@zen.ludd.luth.se (Joakim Henriksson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: [Q] cron jobs Date: 8 Feb 1996 11:20:26 GMT Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4fcm9q$avt@news.luth.se> References: <4fa6o9$kkp@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: my21.sm.luth.se X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 >I want to have my entry in the crontabs file execute every night at midnight. >This entry will rotate my netscape logs and looks like this: > > 0 0 * * * /usr/ns-home/httpd-80/rotate > >I placed this entry into the "/etc/crontabs" file and rebooted for it to take >effect, yet it did not execute?? Any ideas??? You added it with the crontab command, yes? If you didnt it wont run! Use crontab -e to edit the crontab for your current user... regards/ Joakim