Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 10:13:02 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Works From Command Line But Not From Cron? Message-ID: <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF9C1@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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I am new to using cron. I have a simple command that I would like have run every so often to update my dynamic IP address. This is the command: lynx -source -auth=username:password 'http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?host=www.mydomain.com' >> /var/log/lynx_dns_update.log And the successful output from the log: <SUCCESS CODE="200" TEXT="Update succeeded." ZONE="mykitchentable.net" IP="207.173.248.121"> This command runs fine from the command line but does not seem to work (no update) as a cron job. From my cron log: May 7 10:05:00 blacksheep CRON[30684]: (root) CMD (lynx -source -auth=username:password 'http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?host=test.mykitchentable.net' >> /var/log/lynx_dns_update.log) And nothing gets appended into my logfile. Here is my cron entry from /var/cron/tabs/root: * * * * * lynx -source -auth=username:password 'http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?host=test.mykitchentable.net' >> /var/log/lynx_dns_update.log So can anyone tell me why it works from the command line but not from cron? Thanks for your help! Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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