From: Bjørn-Helge Mevik via slurm-users <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com>
Date: Wednesday, 8 May 2024 at 07:38
To: slurm-users@schedmd.com <slurm-users@schedmd.com>
Subject: [slurm-users] Re: scrontab question

Sandor via slurm-users <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> writes:

> I am working out the details of scrontab. My initial testing is giving me
> an unsolvable question

If you have an unsolvable problem, you don't have a problem, you have a
fact of life. :) 

> Within scrontab editor I have the following example from the slurm
> documentation:
>
> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * *
> /directory/subdirectory/crontest.sh

- The command (/directory/...) should beon the same line as the time
spec (0,5,...) - but that was perhaps just the email formatting.

- Check for any UTF8 characters that look like ordinary ascii, for
instance "unbreakable space".  I tend to just pipe the text throuth "od
-a".

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Cheers,
Bjørn-Helge Mevik, dr. scient,
Department for Research Computing, University of Oslo