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puzzling cron job!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vineeta)
Sat Oct 31 04:52:07 1998
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 15:37:29 +0530
From: Vineeta <vineeta@vidya.aptech.ac.in>
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I have the foll. entry in my crontab file for root:
0 19 9 10 5 /etc/xxx
1 19 9 10 5 /usr/bin/yyy
This was the change i had made in the crontab file on 9th oct,1998.
After that i did not reboot my linux box.
Now,today when i came & checked my mail,i saw that the cron job was
executed yesterday at 7pm.
Between 9th oct & today i rebooted my m/c on 28th oct,1998.
I am puzzled as to how cron works.
Acc. to the entry in crontab file the job was supposed to be executed
on 9/10/98 at 19:00 & 19:01.
then,why did it execute yesterday???
It did not execute on 9th oct.
Any idea what's going on??
Regards,
Vineeta
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