Date: 07 May 2001 11:13:33 -0700 From: Benjamin Hyatt <benski@pacbell.net> To: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions "(E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Works From Command Line But Not From Cron? Message-ID: <989259213.1311.4.camel@wsp024893wss.ops.3com.com> In-Reply-To: <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF9C1@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> References: <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF9C1@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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On 07 May 2001 10:13:02 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > 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? Like James said, lynx may not be in the path. What I would recommend you do is create a small shell script that sets the proper path(s) and has your lynx argument. Then just call from cron... * * * * * /whatever/pathtoscript/script 2>&1 -Ben > 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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