[CLUE-Tech] crontab not working

David Willson DLWillson at TheGeek.NU
Wed Sep 25 19:37:37 MDT 2002


Who is executing this command?  'cron', 'root', or 'skidawg'?  Whoever
it is will need RX on the script...  Sorry if it's already been pointed
out.

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 17:40, Ski Dawg wrote:
> cronOn Wed, 2002-09-25 at 17:29, Dale Hawkins wrote:
> > Ski Dawg <skidawg at plbb.net> writes:
> > 
> > > */5 * * * * /home/skidawg/bin/sigscript.sh
> > 
> > >From the stupid advice area, does the line end in a newline?  This has
> > tripped me up more than I care to mention.
> 
> Yes it does. I am not sure I would call that stupid advice. If someone
> else hadn't previously mentioned that to me, I never would have thought
> of even looking for that.
> 
> At this point, I am sure that it is something small that is causing the
> problem, but I have no idea what that could be. Oh well, back to more
> researching.
> 
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> Doug
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