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Date:      Thu, 5 Jul 2001 12:30:56 -0700
From:      "Graham White" <graham@bravenet.com>
To:        "FreeBSD-questions" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Cron
Message-ID:  <CIEEIPPHEMBKLIMPEJFBGELHCAAA.graham@bravenet.com>

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Thanks for your replies guys but still no luck: Here is the crontab entry:
SHELL=/bin/bash
30 10 * * *  /usr/local/adminscpts/update

And the Script itself:
#!/bin/bash
#This script will automatically update a users home directory.
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/mail:/usr/local/adminscpts

/usr/bin/su - user -c '/usr/bin/cvs update -d' | /usr/bin/mail
graham@bravenet.com

This was all set up as root.
Thanks for helping out a newbie guys.

Original message:

Greetings, I am trying to set up a script file to be automatically run by
cron every morning.  The script works when I manually execute it. The path
and time variables for the script file are correct but when the time comes
for it to run nothing happens.  If I set up the crontab file with the
command(that I have in the script file) itself rather than the path to the
script file it works! I've tried different permission settings but no luck.
Any suggestions?

GW


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