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Date:      Wed, 07 Apr 1999 11:31:02 +0200
From:      Stefano Riva <sriva@alice.it>
To:        Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@ethereal.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Weird crontab/script problem
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19990407113102.0095fdf0@relay.alice.it>
In-Reply-To: <19990407013721.A15530@ethereal.net>

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At 01.37 07/04/99 -0700, you wrote:
>OK, I have a script I have written to send out some pings and record the 
>results. When I run it by hand, it works fine. When I put it in a crontab, it
>never does anything.

  What about ownership/permissions? Are you running your program from cron
as root, or...? I mean, executable owner/perm AND /tmp owner/perm.
  What about /var/cron/log? Are there entries concerning your program?

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  Stefano Riva
  Software Engineer - Systems Administrator
  Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl
  Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451
  Email sriva@alice.it


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