I'm not sure if this has been beaten to death, but I use cron both on my home desktop system (SuSE 7.3), my laptop (SuSE 8.0), and the blu.org server (RH 7.2), and work (Tru64 Unix). First, I keep a copy of my crontab files in a local directory. Then I run the crontab file to install them. crontab mycrontab Then I run crontab -l to check it. The other thing is that you should make sure that your scripts all have the appropriate execute permission. I always test my scripts by inserting echoes on dangerous lines, and set up a reasonable close time just so I can make sure the script will work to some extent. (I usually test the production script manually also). On 21 May 2002 at 13:17, dan wrote:
Sorry should have told you that I used the full path for everything and it is still not working - is there a way of making sure the commands you use in crontab will work i.e. could I set all the env variable to null and try manually typing the command?
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