Cron !!! Help

[jeffrey_seeNJ]

Hey guys, i need help in cron, i gt this script on hand, but hw am i going to execute it with cron? my cron source is here...




#!bin/bash

00 06 * * * / $home/user/myscript.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

23 0-23/4 * * * /




but hw do i execute it?

[jeffrey_seeNJ]

and why do i keep getting permission deny?

[bigtomrodney]

A couple of things are wrong there - you don't need the shabang in cron and also for reference your one is incorrect. It is #!/bin/bash. For this line you probably don't need the first / as $home defines your home directory. Bear in mind however that this will most likely not work under cron so replace it with the full path..

00 06 * * * / $home/user/myscript.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
00 06 * * * /home/user/myscript.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

That was a little collision between the variable and the path. Make sure also the script has execute permissions.

chmod +x /home/user/myscript.sh

[jeffrey_seeNJ]

But hw come i still get errors like...


"/home/user/cron":3: premature EOF
errors in crontab file, can't install.

[matonb]

jeffrey_seeNJ,

post exactly what your trying to put into cron here