Seemingly no-crack attemps

[gsamuelhays]

I'm just learning to use the hashcat tool. I have a test.md5 file I'm using that has md5-hashed test passwords. When I run the tool, the output looks like this:

>hashcat-cli64 -m 0 -a 3 --pw-min=3 --pw-max=9 -o .\cracked.txt -1 ?l?d?s?u test.md5 mask
Initializing hashcat v0.41 by atom with 8 threads and 32mb segment-size...

Added hashes from file test.md5: 55 (1 salts)

NOTE: press enter for status-screen

Input.Mode: Mask (mas)
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/55 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--
Input.Mode: Mask (mask)
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/55 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--
Started: Mon Nov 19 12:09:55 2012
Stopped: Mon Nov 19 12:09:55 2012

as one can see, it doesn't seem to actually do anything. I'm certain that I'm missing some key thing here. Can someone help?

Thanks

[Mem5]

it does do something :

Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)

It only tries one password.

Clue : "Input.Mode: Mask (mas)"

[gsamuelhays]

it does do something :

Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)

It only tries one password.

Clue : "Input.Mode: Mask (mas)"

Oh - I understand. Not the word mask - but the actual mask. <sigh> Alright. For the sake of completeness - the solution for my issue (for anyone with a similar problem in the future) was this:

hashcat-cli64 -m 0 -a 3 -o .\cracked.txt test.md5 ?h?h?h?h?h?h?h?h?h?h --pw-min=3 --pw-max=9

notice I actually put the mask.