[ALUG] Setting Crons on FreeBSD

Hamisi Jabe administrator at banana.co.tz
Tue Aug 4 17:17:23 EAT 2015


The start symbolizes every 20 minutes




On 04/08/2015 05:15 alasiri, Seta Magabe wrote:
> I think you should remove that star in the beginning of your command 
>  try this /*30 * * * * /usr/local/bin/bash /etc/rsync.sh *
> and not */*30 * * * * /usr/local/bin/bash /etc/rsync.sh*
>
> Thanks
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Hamisi Jabe via Linux 
> <linux at lists.habari.co.tz <mailto:linux at lists.habari.co.tz>> wrote:
>
>     Dear All,
>
>     Hope everyone is doing on fine,
>
>     I am trying to set crons on Freebsd to run a script but its not
>     executing though when i run the script directly it is running
>     properlly from start to end
>
>     Please help
>
>     script directory   without the quotes        "*/etc/rsync.sh*"
>
>     cron job command   without the quotes    "*/*30 * * * *   
>     /usr/local/bin/bash /etc/rsync.sh*"
>
>
>
>     Any help please
>
>
>     Thanks
>
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