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- From: mikael@scout.utexas.edu (Mikael Behrens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: cron and shell scripts
- Message-ID: <86306@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 20:53:22 GMT
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- Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp
- Reply-To: mbehrens@cs.utexas.edu
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- Mikael Behrens writes
- | I'm running a mono NeXTstation with Mamakos' SLIP software, and I have a
- | shell script that retrieves my mail from my school account. This script
- | works; I've tested it several times.
- |
- | I would like to have this script periodically executed by cron, but I
- | can't seem to make it work. Here's my /private/etc/crontab file:
- |
- | 0,15,30,45 * * * * root /usr/lib/atrun
- | 0 2 * * * root /bin/sh /usr/adm/daily >/usr/adm/daily.log 2>&1
- | 30 3 * * 6 root /bin/sh /usr/adm/weekly >/usr/adm/weekly.log 2>&1
- | 30 5 1 * * root /bin/sh /usr/adm/monthly >/usr/adm/monthly.log
- | 2>&1
- | 10 17 * * * mikael /bin/sh /Users/mikael/Apps/RetrieveMail
- |
- |
- | The last line is my addition. I've been changing the times to test it.
- | I've also tried this entry:
- |
- | 10 17 * * * mikael /Users/mikael/Apps/RetrieveMail
- |
- | Neither works. When the specified time rolls around nothing happens.
- | I've rebooted after changing the crontab file, but that doesn't seem to
- | help. Is there a log file somewhere where errors are reported? I've
- | never messed with cron before, and I'm completely stumped. Any help
- would
- | be greatly apprecieated.
- |
- | Mikael
- |
-
- Thanks to Robert Lutwak who responded to my post, the problem is solved.
- My script uses ftp, and I had to specify it's full pathname for it to run
- under cron.
-
- Thanks to everyone else who responded too. The net sure is a nice
- resource (especially when the online documentation has NOTHING to say!)
-
- Mikael Behrens
-