[ale] cron doesn't seem to do it's job

[Jeremy Fincher]

The goal is to have the cron job run every five minutes.  According to Running
Linux, */5 is proper syntax.  Also, I have gotten it to work previously with
the this syntax.

I actually did find my problem: There was no carriage return at the end of the
line, therefore cron never actually *ran* the command  :-)

Simple, isn't it?  :-)

Thanks for all the ideas though.
Jeremy

Ben Phillips wrote:

> > */5 * * * * uptime >/home/httpd/html/uptime.html
> > 0 * * * * /usr/local/seti/seti2/setiathome
> > 0 * * * * /usr/local/seti/seti1/setiathome
>
> Did you ever get an answer to this?  Personally, I've never seen '*/5' as
> correct syntax in a crontab file.  I would just put '5' where you've got the
> '*/5' and see if that fixes it.
>
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