Re: Help with cron job

Did yyou try my sugesstions? The way crond parses that file, if you didnt specify a username, it will thnk to run every 3 minuted instead of every three hours. Try that and see what happens. Chris On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Adrian Teasdale wrote: > > > > should be.... > > > > > > * */3 * * * root /usr/local/bin/wget -o /dev/null -O - > http://mysite.com/look_csv.wow > /dev/null > > > > > > you didnt havw a user that is should be running as... > > Hi Chris > > The script is actually running - it's just running A LOT - every time I > check my email I get loads of confirmations through (I added a confirmation > email to the script so that I could tell if it was running). It is either > running every minute or a few times a minute ! > > Any other ideas? > > Thanks > > Ade >