On Sunday 10 September 2006 21:22, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 10 September 2006 21:08, stephan beal wrote:
i have set the mailto, and no mail is set. It's simply as if the job is ignored by cron.
Have you tried rewriting the line?
Several times :(
What is the character immediately following the 5th asterisk? Make sure it is a tab character
It was a space, i've replaced it with a tab, but that doesn't make a difference (as it shouldn't). Vixie cron isn't as picky as Solaris cron. My crontab low looks like: SHELL=/bin/bash MAILTO=stephan 32 9 * * * /space/backups/navigating-backups (That's a tab between fields 5 and 6) And i get no mail, no output, no nothing. It's simply ignoring the cron job. The very minimal output should be something like "nothing to do", because the script is just running a makefile which might determine that all targets are up to date. Looking through last month's archives on this list, someone else had a similar problem and no solution was every proposed. It looks like i'm going to have to start, as a workaround, using 'at' jobs which automatically reschedule themselves after running. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts