From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 3 17:29: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5239514FED for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 17:28:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 125Hbr-000NE9-00; Tue, 04 Jan 2000 00:13:59 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.092 #1) id 125Hbr-0001c5-00; Tue, 04 Jan 2000 00:13:59 +0000 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 00:13:59 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Joss Roots Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP: cron & /etc/periodic question. Message-ID: <20000104001359.B6121@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000103210817.12790.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000103210817.12790.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joss Roots wrote: > cron can't seem to run the scripts > /etc/periodic/daily/500.systemupdate > for some reason. Could you give more information on how it's not working? What error messages, if any, do you see, or does cron seem to silently ignore your script? -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message