Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 11:40:42 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/crontab not work? Message-ID: <20000817114042.C6387@jonc.ntdns.wilsonandhorton.co.n> In-Reply-To: <399A89CC.AA704AD6@wmptl.com>; from webmaster@wmptl.com on Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:32:12AM -0400 References: <399A89CC.AA704AD6@wmptl.com>
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:32:12AM -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote:
> I have two cron jobs which won't seem to run. If I run the exact same
> commands from a shell script, then everything goes well. There are no
> errors reported, nothing get's logged, yet nothing gets done either. The
> two entries in question are as follows:
>
> # run Perl script which backs up our databases
> # permissions set to 755, runs if user types: /etc/database-backup
> # must be run as root, should run nightly at or around 8:00pm
> 10 20 * * * root /etc/database-backup
> 2>&1 | sendmail garbage
You could check /var/logs/cron for further details; but my guess is
that you need to put in an absolute pathname for the stuff in
/etc/database-backup or path-out sendmail ie /usr/sbin/sendmail.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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