On Wednesday 18 August 2004 15:56, Jim Higson wrote: Ooops, sorry everyone - just found the answer - the editor was wrapping the text (since I usually use it for email I set it up this way), changed editor and everything went fine. > I'm adding backups to my crontab with crontab -e called as root. This brought up the editor and I entered: > > 30 05 * * * root pdumpfs /home/jim /mnt/backup-hdd/home/jim >/mnt/backup-hdd/homejim.log 2>/mnt/backup-hdd/homejim.errlog > 00 06 * * * root pdumpfs /etc /mnt/backup-hdd/etc >/mnt/backup-hdd/etc.log 2>/mnt/backup-hdd/etc.errlog > > I'm trying to backup my home dir daily at 5:30am and /etc at 6am > > When I save+exit from the editor crontab says: > > crontab: installing new crontab > "/tmp/crontab.3410":2: bad day-of-month > errors in crontab file, can't install. > Do you want to retry the same edit? > > I can't see the problem here. In both cases I have '*' as the day-of-month > >
