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Date:      Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:26:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To:        Matt Tyler <Matt.Tyler@grandecom.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ppp -background question!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10208302225260.84395-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
In-Reply-To: <A31392D80F08D5119BCC00B0D0B08C6F060C9DBA@europa.lan.thrifty.net>

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On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Matt Tyler wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm wanting to iniate a 
> 
> 	/usr/sbin/ppp -background >/tmp/ppp.log
> 
> from my crontab as root.
> 
> If I execute the command as root I get the results in the ppp.log, but if
> crontab runs the command I get nothing redirected to the ppp.log. Any ideas?
> 
What do you have in your crontab file? Are you using the crontab in /etc
or a user crontab?

	Annelise

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