From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 14:54:29 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 F100237B405 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from europa.lan.thrifty.net (66-90-130-225.grandecom.com [66.90.130.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6594343EE8 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:54:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Matt.Tyler@grandecom.com) Received: by europa.lan.thrifty.net with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:50:48 -0500 Message-ID: From: Matt Tyler To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: ppp -background question! Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:50:40 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 Hi, I'm wanting to iniate a /usr/sbin/ppp -background >/tmp/ppp.log from my crontab as root. If I execute the command as root I get the results in the ppp.log, but if crontab runs the command I get nothing redirected to the ppp.log. Any ideas? Thanks, -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message