From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 9:35:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6CF37B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:35:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labs.unixhideout.com (dsl-65-187-193-189.telocity.com [65.187.193.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3255F43E3B for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:35:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@unixhideout.com) Received: from unixhideout.com (webserver@localhost.unixhideout.com. [192.168.1.20]) by labs.unixhideout.com (8.12.5/8.12.3) with SMTP id g78GZOZY045778 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:35:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from root@unixhideout.com) Received: from 192.168.1.10 (SquirrelMail authenticated user sagacious) by email.unixhideout.com with HTTP; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:35:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1716.192.168.1.10.1028824524.squirrel@email.unixhideout.com> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:35:24 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Cron running scripts From: "Mike" To: In-Reply-To: <009201c23f5d$a48911b0$6401a8c0@tsunami> References: <009201c23f5d$a48911b0$6401a8c0@tsunami> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Reply-To: root@unixhideout.com X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.7) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have a perl script that is run every night to backup some directories. > The output from the scripts says it completed fine, but nothing is > actually output. When I run the script manually it produces the same > output, but it actually writes the backup files. Why doesn't cron > running the script do this? > Showing us the script would probably not be a bad idea. -- Those of you who act like you know everything are very annoying to those of us who do. You can easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue, just agree with him. Need to get a hold of me? finger sagacious@unixhideout.com ----------------------------------------- Free email that kicks ass from UnixHideout "The UnixHideout network" http://www.unixhideout.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message