[wplug] crontab problems

[Chris Romano]

1). See previous message

2). The script doesn't produce any output.

3). All cron files in /var/log/ are empty.



On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 14:40:41 -0500, redtoade <redtoade at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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