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You might wanna check the users mailbox.  Cron send mail on errors. 

Drew

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 16:11, Mathias Haas wrote:
> It is executable and it didn't have a newline at the end, it does now - 
> but there's still no difference...
> Do you have to do something to get FreeBSDs (4.6.2)  cron to run 
> shellscripts?
> ..and I can still run the script "by hand"
> 
> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 
> >Mathias Haas <mathias@haas.se> writes:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>As a reply to both answers, here's a script that wont' run:
> >>#!/usr/local/bin/bash
> >>echo start > test.txt
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Is it executable?
> >Does the last line have a newline at the end?
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