Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:15:59 -0300 From: Ramiro Caso <ramirocaso08@gmail.com> To: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running? Message-ID: <4FD732FF.4020404@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHu1Y70YJ6voMx2YPfPoxBVhQ5Pje4h%2BfanpLkCKz-CGBMW78w@mail.gmail.com> References: <jr683k$gum$1@dough.gmane.org> <CAHu1Y70YJ6voMx2YPfPoxBVhQ5Pje4h%2BfanpLkCKz-CGBMW78w@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/06/2012 23:10, Michael Sierchio wrote: > 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 Pitfall: Even if bash is installed, it's not usually under /bin, but under /usr/local/bin >> >> 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? > > - M > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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