[clue-tech] Cron question

Angelo Bertolli angelo at freeshell.org
Sat Jan 15 00:28:11 MST 2005


>I don't get any indications of errors that I can see.  How does one check for 
>errors from something like this.  All I am doing in the shell script is 
>create a new folder, download a bunch of web pages with Wget, and rename the 
>folder.  All the file references in the script are absolute (begin at the 
>root /).  Also, this crantab is stored as my login name, not as root.  Does 
>that matter?
>
>  
>
Well I think the system might email you the output of your cron jobs 
whenever they occur.  If there are any errors when it is run, you'll get 
those too.  Unless you're pretty sure that cron just isn't trying to run it.

Angelo



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