Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 23:22:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: stan <stanb@panix.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Strange cron behavior Message-ID: <20061003232147.R65965@bravo.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <20061004000523.GA5229@teddy.fas.com> References: <20061004000523.GA5229@teddy.fas.com>
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> I'm having a hard time getting cron to run a task. I've run crontab -e > (as root), and added the following line: > > 12 * * * * /usr/local/bin/mirror_ubuntu > > This script runs from teh command line. Now I've seen plenty of > strange beahviour because of the limited environment cron tasks > get, but a basic "echo "test" >> /tmp/stan isn't even creating > the file. > > Sugestions? Is the cron daemon running? What is the output in /var/log/cron? -p
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