On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 15:59:38 +0100 <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > Most probably cron will just see what you intended as a user > name as part of the command: > > rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 11 > /dev/null 2>&1 > > will run the command "rprice" on the args "/mnt..."; most of > the time this will be a "no such file or so-and-so", sometimes > it might lead to surprising results ;-)
In which event cron will send a complaining email to the appropriate user. Since Mr. Price hasn't mentioned any such emails, I conjecture he is not monitoring his emails in /var/mail, and probably should be. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
