From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FGfqB-0001eJ-SG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:19:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k27HH7ce025868; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:17:07 GMT Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (vms046pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.46]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k27H5pKu023045 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:05:51 GMT Received: from mail.joat.com ([71.114.144.163]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IVR009Q7OTPPKO0@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:05:49 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (cornholio.joat.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C4914586 for ; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:05:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.joat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.joat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23933-10 for ; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:05:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dnebing.tbbgl.com [141.151.196.13]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:05:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:04:31 -0500 From: Dave Nebinger Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with vixie-cron In-reply-to: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <440DBD1F.8030804@joat.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at joat.com References: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k27HH7cv025868 X-Archives-Salt: 8f804af6-ef6f-4cb1-b882-c5834d9da29f X-Archives-Hash: e47b342ee94d817ed0e2bc2781afa932 Thiago L=FCttig wrote: > Hi, i=B4m trying to automate a proccess with vixie-cron, so I edit the=20 > /etc/crontab file, and after run crontab /etc/crontab, i look into the=20 > log (/var/log/crond/current) and the following message apears: [cron]=20 > (*system*) BAD FILE MODE (/etc/crontab) > and my task was not executed. What=B4s wrong ? First you do not want to put it into /etc/crontab. Edit a file in your=20 local directory. Often it is better to "crontab -l > local.crontab" or some such so the=20 file is populated with your current crontab entries, then edit it to add=20 your new entry. Finish that off by "crontab local.crontab" to get the addition loaded. --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list