I need help with crontabs
 

I am trying to set up something to update every six hours.

Is this right?
Minute Hour Day Month Weekday
0 */6 * * *

Command
/home/username/public_html/hornygnome.com/cgi-bin/tgp/cron.cgi --main

Im getting this error in my email.
bin/sh: line 1: /home/username/public_html/hornygnome.com/cgi-bin/tgp/cron.cgi:
No such file or directory


Thank you in advance

./home/username? you substituted in your username right?

nonetheless the path looks wrong.

* 0,6,12,18 * * * /bin/sh /home/username/public_html/hornygnome.com/cgi-bin/tgp/cron.cgi

That is a 6hour update yes

Thank you everyone. Yes sacX /home/username is part of the path.

JFPdude, thank you but where do you come up with /bin/sh? Not that I doubt you, its just I havent read anything about that. I guess thats why its not working. :1orglaugh

Thank you V_RocKs. so the numbers are right but the command to run is wrong?

actually you may need to change the /bin/sh to something else but the correct syntax is:

1 2 3 4 5 commandtorun /path/to/file

1 = minutes
2 = hours
3 = day of month
4 = month
5 = day of week 1=monday - 7=sunday

actually by default if you need /bun/sh to run your file you don't need to put the /bin/sh in there but if you want another program to run the file you need to put the command in. IE: wget

ls -l /home/username/public_html/hornygnome.com/cgi-bin/tgp/cron.cgi

Does it find the file if you do that?

on most servers /home is really /usr/home and sometimes cron won't run unless you make the path /usr/home/blah blah

It found it when I did crontab -l in SSH

that only lists your crontabs ..

ls -l /path/to/your/script should find the script

No such file or directory


No such file or directory.

Thanks anyway guys. Ill just sit and wait for host to get back to me.
Maybe my icq isnt working.

Oops forget the host. I just remembered dont dont do script help.

hit me up 44-33-144 If you have ssh I'll figure out for you

Thank you. I just added you

Thanks again JFPdude! :thumbsup