Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:41:07 -0500 From: Matt <datahead4@gmail.com> To: "John Almberg" <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cron question Message-ID: <cd6b4a5b0804241441n6fb0533bp290cffeb1cfcca23@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <C615711F-BD11-4AAE-8321-5A93A64863E6@identry.com> References: <C615711F-BD11-4AAE-8321-5A93A64863E6@identry.com>
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:26 PM, John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> wrote: > SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash Did you install bash from ports and does it run OK from outside of cron? > > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/gs/bin > HOME=/home/gs > 0 15 * * * /home/gs/bin/script.php >>/home/gs/log/script.log > > I can see from the cron log that cron runs script.php at the appointed > hour: > > Apr 24 15:00:03 on /usr/sbin/cron[72414]: (gs) CMD > (/home/gs/bin/script.php >>/home/gs/log/script.log) This entry in the cron log will still show up if the shell listed in the crontab is not available. However, as someone else already mentioned, cron sends a mail when it goes to run and can't execute the shell.
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