Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 08:15:47 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Supote Leelasuppakorn <pjn0211@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shell script in crontab cannot write files into FreeBSD's filesystem. (2nd evised version) Message-ID: <20071205191547.GA69589@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <BAY102-W11B5E42ACC7E6D82E3D6C0B96E0@phx.gbl> References: <BAY102-W11B5E42ACC7E6D82E3D6C0B96E0@phx.gbl>
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 04:02:29PM +0700, Supote Leelasuppakorn wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> Please anybody help me, I faced the problem with my "crontab".
> I tried to run a shell script which will fetch webpage and save it to
> a directory by using wget but after few minute I cannot see any file
> in such directory
>
> Below are content of shell script, my crontab and also
> file's permission listing.
>
> ##########################
> # Output of `crontab -l`
> ##########################
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> MAILTO=pjn
> * * * * * . /home/pjn/parseGP/fetchPage.sh
^
You've got a "." as your command. Attempting to execute a directory
is Not Good.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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