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  1. Xref: sparky comp.unix.questions:13284 news.software.nntp:1495
  2. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,news.software.nntp
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!utzoo!henry
  4. From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
  5. Subject: Re: cron not finding script
  6. Message-ID: <BxM5wu.73u@zoo.toronto.edu>
  7. Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:29:17 GMT
  8. References: <92315.102834IETAM@ASUACAD.BITNET>
  9. Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
  10. Lines: 19
  11.  
  12. In article <92315.102834IETAM@ASUACAD.BITNET> Thom Anthony McCarty <IETAM@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
  13. >30 8    1-31 *  1-5     '/usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrunning off'
  14. > ...
  15. >Your "cron" job
  16. >
  17. >    '/usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrunning off'
  18. >
  19. >produced the following output:
  20. >
  21. >sh: /usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrunning off: not found
  22.  
  23. Get rid of the quotes.  The shell is looking for a command named
  24. "/usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrunning off", and there is no such command.
  25. There is a command "/usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrunning", but that's not
  26. what your cron is looking for, because those quotes make the command all
  27. one word.
  28. -- 
  29. MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s.      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
  30.               -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
  31.