Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:10:21 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running? Message-ID: <CAHu1Y70YJ6voMx2YPfPoxBVhQ5Pje4h%2BfanpLkCKz-CGBMW78w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <jr683k$gum$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <jr683k$gum$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> wrote: > As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to > FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux). > > FreeBSD9 on x86_64. > > Cron is running: > > $ ps -ax|grep cron > > 1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s > > 2283 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep cron > > $ > > I have a syntactically valid crontab: > > $ crontab -l > #min hr dom month dow command > > SHELL=/bin/bash > > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/ > daddy/bin > > HOME=/home/walterh > > 00 02 * * * /home/walterh/exports.sh > > 05 02 * * * /home/walterh/backup_etc.sh > > 10 02 * * * /home/walterh/systemcheck.sh > > 15 02 * * * /home/walterh/backup_bsd.sh > > $ > > So what is wrong? Why is nothing happening? I have consulted the handbook > but see nothing. Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base. What's in your shell scripts? - Mhelp
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