Unix administration - Re: Crontab Linux FC 1

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Re: Crontab Linux FC 1

Bill Marcum

2005-09-21, 7:49 am

On 20 Sep 2005 14:59:01 -0700, yezi
<ye_line@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I think the way I am asking is sth wrong. My problem is I edit the
> crontab by -e , and by -l , I find the task is list in the crontab,
> However I canot find the result of the crontab. My crontab is
> following:
>
> 50 15 12 * 2,4 /sbin/ping -c 100 -s 1000 www.yahoo.com >>
> $HOME/data/test_perl/try1.txt
>
Are you sure ping is in /sbin? It's in /bin on my Ubuntu system.
ifconfig and route are in /sbin.

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