Cronjobs Not Running

[Knucklehead00]

Hey all.

My server skills are quite lackluster, so please bare with me here.

I am setting up a couple of cronjobs via crontab -- 1 setup to run at midnight and another setup to run at 12:10am.

I setup the cronjobs not using the root user (what I think could be the problem) as I do not have root access to the server (asking my client for that as we speak).

I tried to do apt-get install cron to ensure that cron was installed and I get the following error when I execute the following command -- apt-get install cron:

-bash: apt-get: command not found

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[coopstah13]

apt-get implies that you are using a debian based system, is this the case?

[Knucklehead00]

apt-get implies that you are using a debian based system, is this the case?

Noob question -- How do I check to see if it is a debian based system?

[coopstah13]

it seems to not be, since apt-get isn't a valid command

but you can do cat /etc/*release