Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 06:23:39 -0400 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Strange cron behavior Message-ID: <20061004102339.GB20990@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20061003232147.R65965@bravo.pjkh.com> References: <20061004000523.GA5229@teddy.fas.com> <20061003232147.R65965@bravo.pjkh.com>
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:22:29PM -0500, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > >I'm having a hard time getting cron to run a task. I've run crontab -e > >(as root), and added the following line: > > > >12 * * * * /usr/local/bin/mirror_ubuntu > > > >This script runs from teh command line. Now I've seen plenty of > >strange beahviour because of the limited environment cron tasks > >get, but a basic "echo "test" >> /tmp/stan isn't even creating > >the file. > > > >Sugestions? > > Is the cron daemon running? What is the output in /var/log/cron? Forgot to mention that. Yhe script does get listed in /var/log/cron as having been invoked. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
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