Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 19:29:35 +0000 (UTC) From: Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why crontab is not able to run some commands ? Message-ID: <20070511192554.L20096@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> In-Reply-To: <002001c793fd$a789bfa0$dc96eed5@ihlasnetym> References: <002001c793fd$a789bfa0$dc96eed5@ihlasnetym>
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On Fri, 11 May 2007, Halid Faith wrote: > > I have a script. As I am a root user, I can run it without a problem. I > added that script to crontab in order to run as automatic. > I entered in /etc/crontab and put down as below; > */20 * * * * root /etc/scriptfile > > Despite root user, the crontab could not run above file. But I can run the > same script in command line interface. > I am sure tha the crontab daemon is running. Also I can see the crontab try > to run that script in /var/log/cron. > /usr/sbin/cron[98727]: (root) CMD (/etc/scriptfile) > When I am a different user, I couldn't run the script and I got "access > denied" > What is the problem ? Were you either logged in as root or su'd to root when you ran the script? If so, why not just install the cron as root by: % crontab -u root -e The only change to your cron line you would have to make is to drop the username 'root'. So it would look like: */20 * * * * /etc/scriptfile
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