wblock said:A. cron is enabled by default. It's already running. You have to be root to start or restart it.
B. Make sure your files have a linefeed after the final line. Many things will ignore that line otherwise.
C. You're responding to a year-old thread. Starting a new one with a more specific title might get better responses.
Thanks wblock. I tried it again with the linefeed after the last line:
Code:
[chris@pcbsd64] ~> crontab fetch
[chris@pcbsd64] ~> crontab -l
PATH=/usr/local/bin
*/1 * * * * /usr/local/bin/fetchmail >/dev/null
[chris@pcbsd64] ~>
When I rebooted, fetchmail was run every 60 seconds, I also got a cron email every 60 seconds, even though I set the output to >/dev/null.