From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 30 19:38:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D04E216A400 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:38:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from koch@rz.tu-clausthal.de) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BAC613C48E for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:38:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from koch@rz.tu-clausthal.de) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id E856C2058CB; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:38:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD24205869; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:38:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from [2001:6f8:137d:0:2e0:29ff:fe0b:7e2d] (account ok HELO [IPv6:2001:6f8:137d:0:2e0:29ff:fe0b:7e2d]) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.5) with ESMTPSA id 20262173; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:38:18 +0100 Message-ID: <45BF9EB9.3000909@rz.tu-clausthal.de> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:38:33 +0100 From: Oliver Koch User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charlie McElfresh References: <44b41e4e0701301113l15a03398o7e3aa2b9440edef0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44b41e4e0701301113l15a03398o7e3aa2b9440edef0@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig9E6F342BA298562DA3C580D9" X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:38:22 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig9E6F342BA298562DA3C580D9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Charlie McElfresh schrieb: > I wrote a perl script to get a news show I like. When I run it, it del= etes > yesterday's copy of the show, and downloads the new copy. The script w= orks > fine. I run the script as myself (charlie), charlie owns it, and it's > chmod'd 0755. Works fine. >=20 > I can't get cron to run it, though. Here's the cron process running on= my > machine: >=20 > charlie@dash$ ps auxwww | grep cron > root 413 0.0 0.1 1364 892 ?? Ss 5Jan07 =20 > 0:06.57/usr/sbin/cron -s >=20 > And here's charlie's crontab, to run at 7:17 mon - fri >=20 > 17 7 * * 1-5 /media/democracy_now/get_new_show.pl did you try to change the cronjob to something like that? 17 7 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/perl /media/democracy_now/get_new_show.pl Kind regards, Oliver --=20 Oliver Koch Phone: +49-(0)5323-72-2626 Computer Center Fax: +49-(0)5323-72-3536 Clausthal University of Technology E-Mail: koch@rz.tu-clausthal.de Erzstra=DFe 51 Web: http://www.rz.tu-clausthal.d= e 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany --------------enig9E6F342BA298562DA3C580D9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFv568F9sAGRi389URAhpQAJoCiiURsXPF+w0F4Jy9tqwotdym/gCfYLt5 sIJLrIlXbi0wWR+tbIhjg5I= =Ue9P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig9E6F342BA298562DA3C580D9--