CRON PROBLEMS

[Innocent Muchedzi]

Hie

 I m having problems setting up a cron job on Fedora 11. I  have added my
schedule as follows
0 12 * * * /usr/bin/lynx -dump
http://localhost/goodnews/smsc/inspirational.verses.services.php >/dev/null
2>&1

and the in my log fil i have

Aug  9 22:44:56 smsc crontab[3512]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)
Aug  9 22:45:01 smsc crond[3325]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Aug  9 22:45:01 smsc crond[3318]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Aug  9 22:45:01 smsc crond[3383]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Aug  9 22:45:01 smsc crond[2393]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Aug  9 22:45:49 smsc crontab[3512]: (root) REPLACE (root)
Aug  9 22:45:49 smsc crontab[3512]: (root) END EDIT (root)
Aug  9 22:45:54 smsc crond[3515]: (CRON) STARTUP (1.2)
Aug  9 22:45:54 smsc crond[3515]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Aug  9 22:46:01 smsc CROND[3517]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/lynx -dump
http://localhost/goodnews/smsc/inspirational.verses.services.php >/dev/null
2>&1)
Aug  9 22:46:01 smsc CROND[3521]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/lynx -dump
http://localhost/goodnews/smsc/inspirational.verses.services.php >/dev/null
2>&1)
Aug  9 22:46:01 smsc CROND[3524]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/lynx -dump
http://localhost/goodnews/smsc/inspirational.verses.services.php >/dev/null
2>&1)
Aug  9 22:46:01 smsc CROND[3531]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/lynx -dump
http://localhost/goodnews/smsc/inspirational.verses.services.php >/dev/null
2>&1)
Aug  9 22:46:01 smsc CROND[3533]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/lynx -dump
http://localhost/goodnews./smsc/inspirational.verses.services.php >/dev/null
2>&1)
Aug  9 22:46:01 smsc CROND[3536]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/lynx -dump
http://localhost/goodnewssmsc/inspirational.verses.services.php >/dev/null
2>&1)
Aug  9 22:50:57 smsc crontab[3548]: (root) LIST (root)


the schedule is supposed to be executed once but it run a number of times
than desired. How can i fix this problem and do you have way to setup cron
jobs in Fedora 11

thank you

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