Dear all,

I have created a cronjob salesorder with the following entries:

lynx -dump https://192.168.0.111/salesorderDocket_abx.php >
/home/ganesh/php_output && mail -s "ePedas Sales Order Docket"
[email protected] < /home/ganesh/php_output

and the cronjob to my /etc/crontab file as follows (I have copied the
cronjobs folder) :

30 9 * * * root /etc/cronjobs/salesorder

When I install the cronjob with the command below,

#crontab salesorder

it is giving me errors:

"/etc/cronjobs/salesorder":0: bad minute
errors in crontab file, can't install.

What could be the possible of this error. Please help.

Regards,
ganesh

I do not quite see why you are modifying the system crontab and running this process as root. This isn't very secure. Why not create a special user with just enough priviledges to do what you want and edit their user crontab (you won't need to supply a "who" field, oif you do this).

Anyway, check for whitespace at the start of your crontab. There's something there, other than your "30" that is getting read as "minutes".

HTH
Dan

Dan