[Lvlug] Crontab & cron

[High Mobley]

How about specifying an absolute path to the cronout file?

High Mobley
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On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:51 PM, User Fwc <fwc at frankcole.lvcm.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, User Fwc wrote:
>
>> Playing with crontab and can't get the entry to execute.
>>
>> Cron running, top shows
>> 734 root          1   8    0  3212K  1288K nanslp 1   0:00  0.00% cron
>>
>> crontab -l shows
>> 0-59/5  *       *       *       *       /usr/home/fwc/temp/timestamps
>>
>> Crontabs file under
>> /var/cron/tabs
>> shows
>> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
>> # (/tmp/crontab.2PvlqUcoLo installed on Sun Mar  7 18:53:53 2010)
>> # (Cron version -- $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.c,v
>> 1.24.6.1 2008/11/25 02:59:29 kensmith Exp $)
>> 0-59/5  *       *       *       *       /usr/home/fwc/temp/timestamps
>>
>> The 'timestamps' script is
>> #!/bin/sh
>> date >> cronout
>> and it will execute from the command line.
>>
>> Permissions are
>> -rwxr--r--  1 fwc  fwc        27 Mar  7 18:13 timestamps*
>>
>> I've even tried restarting the machine.
>> She no work. Ideas?
>
>
> Replying to myself here.
>
> Looked at /var/log/cron with 'tail -f', crontab line shows as being run.
> Mar  7 19:45:00 ibm /usr/sbin/cron[1175]: (fwc) CMD
> (/usr/home/fwc/temp/timestamps)
>
> Also included path to 'date' in timestamps, no help.
> #!/bin/sh
> /bin/date >> cronout
>
> Out of ideas...
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