Cron job for hourly spam reports

[ihtxam]

I am new to pm gw, i run this command as per this thread, post#10, and found following error:


root@pmg:~# crontab -e 0 8-18 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/pmgqm send
crontab: usage error: no arguments permitted after this option
usage: crontab [-u user] file
crontab [ -u user ] [ -i ] { -e | -l | -r }
(default operation is replace, per 1003.2)
-e (edit user's crontab)
-l (list user's crontab)
-r (delete user's crontab)
-i (prompt before deleting user's crontab)


Anybody can help on it please? thank you so much for replying soon.

Kind regards,
ihtxam

 

[rhonda]

You need to put the crontab entry into the file, it's not part of the commandline. "crontab -e" opens an editor, and in there you add the data you need.

 

[ihtxam]

Thank you so much for your reply.

I figured it out how to use nano editor and add cron.

I actually copied following:

0 8-18 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/pmgqm send

Every hour between 8am and 6pm from monday to friday.
And if the spam section is empty you get no mail.

Can you please help, if i want this report to be send 24 hours, and every day of the week? how that would look like?
After doing it, i would like to check if cron is working or no.

thank you so much for quick reply.

 

[rhonda]

The way the crontab entries work is described in its manpage ("man 5 crontab"). I'm uncertain what you mean "to be send 24 hours", do you mean hourly? For that there is even a shortcut, "@hourly", as described in the manpage:

@hourly /usr/bin/pmgqm send

Hope that helps, the manpage is quite good and helpful.