Summary:crontab error messages

Mark_Conroy@em.fcnbd.com
Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:07:47 -0600

To the group,

Thanks for the 51 replys. It looks like I bumbled my way through
this setup. The primary responses were:

-one to many fields. I had 5 fields, and there should have been 4.

-i did not have my editor set up to be able to perform a crontab -e.

Thanks again for everyone's help, and I will try to review my work a
little closer before posting.

Mark Conroy

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Subject: crontab error messages
Author: Mark_Conroy@em.fcnbd.com at Internet
Date: 2/25/98 4:14 PM

Question for the Group,

I am running a sparc20 with solaris 2.5.1.

I have a user trying to set up a cron job to run every 5 minutes. I
had him vi a file called testcron to perform the following:

00,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * * /appl/home/user/test5

then load the file into crontab:

crontab testcron

i list it and it is in there:

crontab -l

However, it doesn't run. He can run it from the command line fine. I
check the cron log file an it is showing a return code of 137. Anyone
know where I can find a place to tell me what these return codes mean.

Will summarize

Thanks,

Mark Conroy