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From: lmiller@cibnor.cibnor.conacyt.mx (Larry Miller [DT])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Cron problems
Date: 2 Feb 1996 22:53:49 GMT
Organization: Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas
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INCS (incs@mindspring.com) wrote:

: My crontab entry is 5,40 * * * * root  /sbin/ping  -c 198.41.0.5

: what is wrong? according to the logfiles o enteries were ever logged.

The "-c" flag needs an argument.

Regards-- Larry

Larry Miller
Administrador de Redes / Network Administrator
Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, La Paz, BCS Mexico 
lmiller@cibnor.conacyt.mx