This question has two parts. Firstly, I noticed that Webfaction sets up a cron job to start the apache server every 20 minutes with:
I accidentally removed it with asked 11 Dec '13, 13:18 Roland |
You need to use: answered 11 Dec '13, 18:47 bmeyer71 ♦♦ Interestingly, if there are no cron jobs queued, adding one with crontab -e doesn't work. If I first use crontab my_crontab_filt.txt to add one, the newly added cron job runs. Adding subsequent cron jobs with crontab -e then works.
(14 Dec '13, 14:20)
Roland
Adding a new entry using crontab -e should work on an empty crontab. You can add:
to the end of the command to redirect any errors/output to a log file. That should help to determine what is happening.
(14 Dec '13, 16:46)
bmeyer71 ♦♦
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