Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 05:52:02 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@ethereal.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird crontab/script problem Message-ID: <19990407105202.B29C8E1@woodstock.monkey.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Apr 1999 01:37:21 PDT." <19990407013721.A15530@ethereal.net>
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In message <19990407013721.A15530@ethereal.net>, Jamie Norwood 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. } } The script is simple and is as follows: } } --- } #/usr/local/bin/tcsh Is that a typo? You probably mean "#!" } ping -c 100 208.166.54.1 > /tmp/ping.`date +%m.%d.%H.%M` Try using the full path to ping, or setting the search path in your script. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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