Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:29:02 -0500, Mark Felder wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi  
> <bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
> 
> > Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) --  
> > you
> > are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them.  Yes, that means numbers will  
> > not
> > be column aligned, but it is a small price to pay to avoid the  
> > hair-tearing
> > that =will= ensue when using it bites you.
> 
> Any other info on this? I've never heard of this before and I've never  
> seen an issue using leading zeroes on the minutes value.

There are some "specific interpretations" that _may_ be
interpreted according to the C rules, e. g. prefix 0x-
for hexadecimal or 08- for octal notation. For example,
083 != 83, just as 0x83 != 83. As it has been mentioned,
spaces also have a significant meaning in crontabs, so
they cannot be used everywhere to align data columns.



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