New to crontab, I wanted to experiment.
Running the command crontab -l
gave me the following answer crontab: no crontab for User_1
Every time I tried to issue a command like 1 16 24 10 6 ping -D -c 1 www.google.com
I got the error "zsh: command not found".
Every time I modified the first number of the crontab command I got an error message saying, if for example 15 is the first number of the command, zsh: command not found: 15
.
For info:
Mac OS X 10.12.6.
zsh 5.8
which crontab
: /usr/bin/crontab
/usr/bin
is in my path.
Best Answer
You need to edit your crontab to make changes. Run
to use the
nano
editor for this. Your (initially empty) crontab will be shown and can be edited (e.g. by adding the line you had in your question). Then press Ctrl-O, Return, Ctrl-X to save the changes and quit the editor.