Paul Sims tapped away at the keyboard with:
I'm trying to execute a script under cron - for test purposes I set up a little scriptlet first to do nothing more than write a file with the current time in it's name. The scriptlet runs manually (produces the file in my home fine) but does not appear to run under cron. I set the run time to be every minute for ease of tracing, editing with kcrontab. Cron sees the changes - /var/log/messages shows cron reloading - but I can't for the life of me see why the test script fails to run.
A word or two from the 'wise': man logger. This provides access to the syslog facility at the shell level. 'tis a wonderful thing. Lets you move around and redirect diagnostic output without ever changing your programs. Confirm the settings with 'crontab -l' -- Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning Perth, Western Australia -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/