* michael ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip...] > > > > Okay, I think I figured it out. In typing this email I was going to > > yank in the output of crontab -l as it is odd. > > hang on, I thought you said it had *nothing* before....
Yes, that was my mistake as it looked like nothing. It was just a mangled prompt, but that was because it was printing a very short line from crontab -l without the newline, and then another prompt. For some reason I still don't understand, overtop of this on the same line it would print yet another prompt, giving something like this: cothrige (celephais:~) $ crontab -l cothrige (celephais:~) $ cothrige (celephais:~) $ Though apparently there is an output to crontab -l in that, it is completely covered by the first prompt, and that is because it is so short. When I used a longer command it then showed partly and that tipped me off that it was in fact finding a command, but due to the missing newline it was mangling the output, and apparently not able to execute the command. Now it seems to be working fine. Thanks again for the help. Patrick
