From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 9 00:15:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA10681 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:15:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA10671 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:15:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA13844; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:15:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:15:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Chado cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ping program not working from cron In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980408233735.0090d270@popmail.p3.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Chado wrote: > Gents, > > I have written a program that pings hosts on our network and the internet. > > When I run it from the command line it works fine...but when I install it > in the cron it doesnt find any of the local machines. Are you sure you can run ping at all from cron? It may be erroring with a `permission denied' or something like that ... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message