On 10/3/06, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm having a hard time getting cron to run a task. I've run crontab -e
(as root), and added the following line:
12 * * * * /usr/local/bin/mirror_ubuntu
This script runs from teh command line. Now I've seen plenty of
strange beahviour because of the limited environment cron tasks
get, but a basic "echo "test" >> /tmp/stan isn't even creating
the file.
Sugestions?
Even your basic script is making assumptions about the environment.
When writing cron scripts always use full-path to your executables and
be very aware of when you are globbing. If I recall, cron won't allow
globbing (the '*' and '?' characters in paths) in commands unless
explicitly enabled, and the only path you get is that defined in your
crontab.
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