[clue-tech] Cron question

[Angelo Bertolli]

George Gammel wrote:

>Hi folks--
>
>I need a little help with this one.  I want to set up a cron job to run at 
>8:30 PM on Monday thru Friday.  First, I checked if there were any existing 
>crontab files and found that there were not by using crontab -l command.  
>Then, I created a text file which contains this:
>
>30 Tab 20 Tab * Tab * Tab 1-5 Tab /home/gggammel/Downloads/Daily_Wget.sh
>
>Then, I ran crontab with the textfile filename.  It appears to have accepted 
>the new crontab and will list out the above text when I enter crontab -l.  
>The crontab file is present in /var/spool/cron and also contains the above 
>text.  There are no allow or deny files.  But, it doesn't seem to do anything 
>at 8:30 PM.  
>
>The shell script file (Daily_Wget.sh) works fine when I manually launch it by 
>double cliking it in Konqueror. According to the Mandrake Control Center, 
>cron is listed as an active service, so it appears to be running.  What am I 
>missing?  Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>  
>
Any errors going to root?  Try making everything in Daily_Wget.sh an 
absolute path the the filename.  When you run Daily_Wget.sh from the 
shell, it inherits your environment variables.

Angelo