Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:04:09 +0000 From: Jeronimo Calvo <jeronimocalvop@googlemail.com> To: Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Crontab not working logwatch.pl [FreeBSD 8 stable] Message-ID: <beaf3aa51001131304w619e56c6y3745c1816752f64c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B4E329D.4090806@lazlarlyricon.com> References: <beaf3aa51001131243u44e86685g1abc4bb367dad93e@mail.gmail.com> <4B4E329D.4090806@lazlarlyricon.com>
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did a crontab -r, a a new crontab -e, using: * * * * * $HOME/.profile ; /bin/bash /var/log/auto_auth.sh * * * * * $HOME/.profile ; /usr/bin/perl /local/sbin/logwatch.pl tailing the /var/log/cron I can see that is being executed every minute... but no emails arrived with is the proof that the script has worked. 2010/1/13 Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com>: > On 2010-01-13 21:43, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> Im having probs when a root crontab located on /var/cron/tabs/root >> >> with this content >> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. >> # (/tmp/crontab.DUtgfVoBT0 installed on Wed Jan 13 20:08:29 2010) >> # (Cron version -- $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.c,v >> 1.31.2.1 2009/08/03 08:13:06 kensmith Exp $) >> * * * * * ~/.profile ; /bin/bash /var/log/auto_auth.sh >> * * * * * ~/.profile ; /usr/bin/perl /local/sbin/logwatch.pl >> >> both of them are sending logs to my email, when runned from the >> command line works, but not from crontab >> any ideas? >> > > The keywords here are > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > > Either edit the system crontab, /etc/crontab, or, to edit root's crontab, > run crontab -e as root. > -- () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions
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