cron usage

David Henderson dhenderson at digital-pipe.com
Thu Jan 7 19:36:44 UTC 2016


Greetings, since I already have the cron daemon running (verified via
ps), I tried setting up an example by creating the /etc/cron.d
directory and creating a test file:

* * * * * echo 'hello world' >> /tmp/test.txt

This does not appear to be picked up by cron.  So looking at the help
output, I thought I should be using the '-c' parameter:

crond -c /etc/cron.d

Once again, this appears to fail.  Any thoughts on why this isn't working?

Thanks,
Dave


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