Any Cron Guru's Around That Can Give Some Advice?
 

I've been trying to get this damn thing installed on my server with putty SSH client for the last 8 hours and it keeps telling me this: "bigjaysbabes.com/cgi-bin/tgp/cron.txt" :2: "bad minute" errors in crontab file, can't install.

Here is the file that i've been using:
# Rebuild pages once per day, selecting new galleries from the database
00 8 * * * /bigjaysbabes.com/cgi-bin/tgp/cron.cgi --build-with-new

# Rebuild pages every 20 minutes, only resorting them
0,20,40 * * * * /bigjaysbabes.com/cgi-bin/tgp/cron.cgi --build

I've played with the minutes by changing them to 0 and 01 for the first line and tried 20 and 20,40 for the second line.

Anyone have any suggestions, maybe somethings screwed up in my commands? Any help would be appreciated.. :helpme

Bumpity Bump

try..
* 8 * * * /bigjaysbabes.com/cgi-bin/tgp/cron.cgi --build-with-new

Tried that one too.

how are you editing it? crontab -e?

* 8 * * * /bigjaysbabes.com/cgi-bin/tgp/cron.cgi --build-with-new

should def. work. Maybe the --build-with-new is causing trouble?

also, is the cgi set to 755? if the file isn't set to allow execute permissions for the user running the cron, that may cause unexpected and unusual behaviour.

you probably need full path too...

TGP Rotator?

Everything looks fine except for maybe your paths.

Depending on how your server is set up, it should be something like

/home/account/domain.com/cgi-bin/...

or

/home/account/public_html/cgi-bin/... etc.

you need the absolute path to the file to run.

Thanks for the replies. It was my path name, i didn't put the /home/account/ in front of the domain/cgi-bin/tgp/cron.cgi
All fixed now though... :thumbsup thanks again