[Sheflug] Re: Cron Job

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard  <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk> writes:

    Richard> 18 12 * * * echo "dialling ippp0 from crontab"

    Richard> that doesn't work at all.

This should result either in mail to root or a trace in some log
file.  Try `grep "dialling ippp0 from crontab" /var/log/*'.

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