well, first of all, the entries don't look correct. if you're using crontab, the fields from left to right are: minute 0-59 hour 0-23 day of month 1-31 month 1-12 (or names, see below) day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names) command right now, your command lines are trying to execute 'root' which probably is not what you want. The usage of a username in front of the command is for /etc/cron.d/FILE entries only. man 5 crontab for more specifics. Note also, that everything MUST be on one line. I'm betting that you line-wrapped the lines. Join them back together, and thigns will be happier. - Kevin On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:56:42 +0100, Jim Higson <jh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
