From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 27 12:53:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5173D16A4CE for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:53:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from titan.open-networks.net (dsl-202-173-148-209.qld.westnet.com.au [202.173.148.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E20443D45 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:53:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from timothy@open-networks.net) Received: from [192.168.1.200] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by titan.open-networks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B7A7919 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:53:02 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <41D005AE.3000502@open-networks.net> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:53:02 +1000 From: Timothy Smith User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041023) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: cronjob doesn't run??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:53:05 -0000 i have an odd problem with this cronjob, #!/bin/sh cd /home/timothy burncd -f /dev/acd0c blank tar -zcvf ./burning/thunderbird.tar.gz ./.thunderbird/* tar -zcvf ./burning/Projects.tar.gz ./Projects/* tar -zcvf ./burning/cvsd.tar.gz /usr/local/cvsd/* mkisofs -L -l -relaxed-filenames -o tmp.iso burning burncd -e -f /dev/acd0c data tmp.iso rm tmp.iso rm burning/* n# ls -l /etc/periodic/daily/Backup -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 323 Dec 27 22:42 /etc/periodic/daily/Backup as you can see it's not a permissions issue. the job must do something, because i end up with a cdrw i can't mount :\