yezi 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
>
> I supposed to find some data in the try1.txt. however , it is nothing
> in the file. SO I can check if the crontab is running according to the
> schedule. and how to verify that ? Thanks for any comments
>

Your entry is set to run on the 12th of the month at 15:50 and also on
Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Do you need to reschedule the entry to run more
often (at least for testing)?

JohnK

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