Crontab help

[oracle]

I did the following:

-bash$ crontab -e

then added:
10 * * * * /var/www/testCron.php

which will send a mail basically. According to this cron job i shd have recieved a mail every 10 min. Or am I wrong, but I am not getting anything.

Can someone please help on this stuff.

Imoracle

 

[Salvatos]

What you wrote will activate the tab every tenth minute of an hour. To make it happen every ten minutes, you should use this:

*/10 * * * * /var/www/testCron.php

However, if you still haven't receive anything in the past three hours, then there might indeed be another problem with your cron. Unfortunately, I don't know much about them and can't help you any more.

 

[oracle]

Well it indeed worked out this way.

Hell need to learn this cron scheduling smwhere. Know of any good tutorial online??

Thank anyways,
Imoracle

 

[Salvatos]

Just a very quick Google search but that one looked okay http://www.astahost.com/info.php/cron-jobs-tutorial_t2324.html