The crontab file format is unfortunately prone to mistakes, since itrequires you to carefully count words and, for bonus fun, requires adifferent number of words in different contexts. There are three classiccrontab syntax mistakes that I have seen (and sometimes committed):

• adding a username when it's not necessary

  This generally results in mail from cron complaining that it cannotrun ' username '.

• failing to specify a username when it's necessary

  This results in mail about 'no such user program ', assuming that

Here is a cynical truth:

No matter what they say, organizations eventually wind up workingfor the people who give them money.

This is a natural result of the fact that very few people everdeliberately try to put themselves out of a job. Organizations aredriven to perpetuate themselves, which requires that money keep comingin, which requires that the funding sources be kept happy, and beforeyou know it the organization's interests have become aligned with thoseof the people who give it money.

This sounds unexceptional,