Hie

*I m having problems setting up a cron job on Fedora 11. I* have added my schedule as follows
0 12 * * * /usr/bin/lynx -dump* http://localhost/goodnews/smsc/inspirational.verses.services.php >/dev/null 2>&1


and the in my log fil i have

Aug* 9 22:44:56 smsc crontab[3512]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)
Aug* 9 22:45:01 smsc crond[3325]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Aug* 9 22:45:01 smsc crond[3318]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)

Aug* 9 22:45:01 smsc crond[3383]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Aug* 9 22:45:01 smsc crond[2393]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Aug* 9 22:45:49 smsc crontab[3512]: (root) REPLACE (root)

Aug* 9 22:45:49 smsc crontab[3512]: (root) END EDIT (root)
Aug* 9 22:45:54 smsc crond[3515]: (CRON) STARTUP (1.2)
Aug* 9 22:45:54 smsc crond[3515]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Aug* 9 22:46:01 smsc CROND[3517]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/lynx -dump* http://localhost/goodnews/smsc/inspirational.verses.services.php >/dev/null 2>&1)

Aug* 9 22:46:01 smsc CROND[3521]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/lynx -dump* http://localhost/goodnews/smsc/inspirational.verses.services.php >/dev/null 2>&1)

Aug* 9 22:46:01 smsc CROND[3524]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/lynx -dump* http://localhost/goodnews/smsc/inspirational.verses.services.php >/dev/null 2>&1)

Aug* 9 22:46:01 smsc CROND[3531]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/lynx -dump* http://localhost/goodnews/smsc/inspirational.verses.services.php >/dev/null 2>&1)

Aug* 9 22:46:01 smsc CROND[3533]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/lynx -dump* http://localhost/goodnews./smsc/inspirational.verses.services.php >/dev/null 2>&1)

Aug* 9 22:46:01 smsc CROND[3536]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/lynx -dump* http://localhost/goodnewssmsc/inspirational.verses.services.php >/dev/null 2>&1)

Aug* 9 22:50:57 smsc crontab[3548]: (root) LIST (root)

the schedule is supposed to be executed once but it run a number of times than desired. How can i fix this problem and do you have way to setup cron jobs in Fedora 11


thank you

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On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Innocent Muchedzi <imuchedzi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hie
>
> *I m having problems setting up a cron job on Fedora 11. I* have added my
> schedule as follows
> 0 12 * * * /usr/bin/lynx -dump
> http://localhost/goodnews/smsc/inspirational.verses.services.php >/dev/null
> 2>&1
>
> and the in my log fil i have

What is the output of:
crontab -l
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