Subject: Re: Uhm
To: None <john@hillnet.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 03/25/1995 13:51:20
   *       *       */24    *       *       /usr/local/bin/lynx -dump http://some.random.url

I don't know what you *expect* that to do, but what it does is run
that program once per minute (or as fast as the previous copies exit)
on the 24th day of the month, which is probably not what you intended.

Please read the crontab(5) man page.