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Subject: Re: Why crontab is not able to run some commands ?
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On Fri, 11 May 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote:

>
> Then try running this in your cron job:
> /bin/sh /etc/scriptfile
>
> Bet it does work.  :-)

Yes, but if the OP has:

#!/bin/sh

as the first line, the file owned by root and the executable flag for user 
set, shouldn't it execute from cron as just:

/etc/scriptfile

??