[wplug] crontab problems

[redtoade]

References:
http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html
man 5 crontab

Ways to rule out the obvious:
1.  run the script as the user by hand.  (However from the looks of it
you know that the script already works.)
2.  in the crontab, dump the output to a text file.

* 9-16 * * 1-5 /home/chris/script.sh >> logfile.txt 2>&1

3.  cron has an entry in /var/log

Perhaps not helpful in and of itself, but if you're SURE you've done
those things, it'll keep you from spinning your wheels.


On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 14:17:39 -0500, Chris Romano <romano.chris at gmail.com> wrote:
> First:
> Slack 10
> Dillion's Cron
> 
> I have a script that I want to run every minut from 9 am to 4 pm
> Monday - Friday.  So I figure the best thing to do is us cron ...
> that's what it's for.
> 
> so
> chris at mail:~$ crontab -e
> 
> * 9-16 * * Mon-Fri /home/chris/script.sh
> 
> chris at mail:~$
> 
> Ok so I wait ... and nothing.  The script from what I can tell does
> not run.  I have done the same for root's crontab and it work perfect.
> 
> # cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/chris
> * 9-16 * * Mon-Fri /home/chris/script.sh
> #
> 
> $ ls -l script.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 chris users 45 2005-02-07 13:56 script.sh
> 
> Is my syntax wrong, or did I miss something? From the man pages and
> google it looks good to me.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
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