From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 17:34:55 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 120C537B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6AC343E77 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:34:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1122728EB3; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:34:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:34:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Cliff Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: Cron running scripts In-Reply-To: <009201c23f5d$a48911b0$6401a8c0@tsunami> Message-ID: <20020808203400.J84785-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Cliff wrote: > 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? Perhaps at the time you are running the perl script there is no output. (?) -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message