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It was cool to find a fancy ASCII example within the installed /etc/crontab like so: # Example of job definition: # .---------------- minute (0 - 59) # | .------------- hour (0 - 23) # | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31) # | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ... # | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat # | | | | | # * * * * * command to be executed The only problem is that this is missing a key component, the username to run the command as. Without the username, cron logs: Jan 21 07:15:01 xxx crond[2290]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab) Jan 21 07:15:01 xxx crond[2290]: (CRON) bad username (/etc/crontab) Jan 21 07:15:01 xxx crond[2290]: (CRON) bad command (/etc/crontab) Jan 21 07:15:01 xxx crond[2290]: (CRON) bad command (/etc/crontab) thank you
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an exception in the current release, please ask your support representative.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 609544 ***