From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 22:26:53 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 98E5237B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:26:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4280843E42 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:26:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7V5QoNs084404; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:26:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:26:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Matt Tyler Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: ppp -background question! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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 Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Matt Tyler wrote: > 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? > What do you have in your crontab file? Are you using the crontab in /etc or a user crontab? Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com; includes 4.6 installation CD Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message