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From: murduth@zen.ludd.luth.se (Joakim Henriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] cron jobs
Date: 8 Feb 1996 11:20:26 GMT
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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>I want to have my entry in the crontabs file execute every night at midnight.
>This entry will rotate my netscape logs and looks like this:
>
>	0 0 * * * /usr/ns-home/httpd-80/rotate
>
>I placed this entry into the "/etc/crontabs" file and rebooted for it to take
>effect, yet it did not execute?? Any ideas???

You added it with the crontab command, yes? If you didnt it wont run!
Use crontab -e to edit the crontab for your current user...

regards/ Joakim