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Date:      Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:15:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Chado <chado@p3.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ping program not working from cron
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980409001511.13615f-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980408233735.0090d270@popmail.p3.net>

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On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Chado wrote:

> Gents,
> 
> I have written a program that pings hosts on our network and the internet.
> 
> When I run it from the command line it works fine...but when I install it
> in the cron it doesnt find any of the local machines.

Are you sure you can run ping at all from cron?  It may be erroring with a
`permission denied' or something like that ...

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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