How to add crontab in FreeBSD

Question

I am trying to add crontab in FreeBSD but it is not working :

I have used this to add : sudo crontab -e -u vaibhav

@daily /home/vaibhav/applications/comparison/scrapy

but it not working .Can someone please help me. Is their is any way to check whether crontab is able to run this script. Like --run-parts in Ubuntu

Answer 1

If you are logged in as vaibhav, you don't need to su or sudo to edit your own crontab. (Note that sudo is not part of the freebsd base system. If you want to use it, you should install it from ports.)

Make sure that you can run /home/vaibhav/applications/comparison/scrapy from the command line. I.e. the file should be executable and any interpreter that it needs whould be in the $PATH.

When something goes wrong with a cron command, the owner of the crontab gets a mail. Make sure that your mail is configured correctly.