01-31-2003
cron/crontab not working
Hello All!
I'm having problems with cron. First cron is running as a process when i send the top command and I am logged in as root. I type crontab -e to edit/create my cron job. What I'm trying to do is run a perl script on my server (the script does work, i know because I type perl script.pl and it runs). Here is an example of my crontab:
20 * * * * perl /var/dir/script.pl | cat update.email >> mail
ed@ed.com
So if I understand cron right, every 20 minutes my scripts.pl will be executed by perl then an email will be sent to my email address with the contents of the update.email file. This is not happening though. The script is not executing and I am not getting emails to confirm it. Any suggestions are welcome. thanks!
Ed
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NAME
Send-reminders - send email reminders for special occasions
SYNOPSIS
Send emails reminders set by users for special occasions.
DESCRIPTION
Email-reminder allows users to define events that they want to be reminded of by email. Possible events include birthdays, anniversaries
and yearly events. Reminders can be sent on the day of the event and a few days beforehand.
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OPTIONS
--help
Displays basic usage message.
--simulate
Does not actually send any emails out.
--verbose
Prints out information about what the program is doing, including the full emails being sent out.
--version
Displays the version number.
FILES
~/.email-reminders, /etc/email-reminder.conf
AUTHOR
Francois Marier <francois@email-reminder.org.nz>
SEE ALSO
email-reminder-editor, collect-reminders
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2004-2010 by Francois Marier
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