[GRLUG] crontab not running a working script

[Bob Kline]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> Michael Mol wrote:
> > Bob Kline wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:13 PM, John-Thomas Richards
> >> <jtr at jrichards.org <mailto:jtr at jrichards.org>> wrote:
> >> But does your script need your environment?
> >> The absolute path gets your script, but under
> >> what environment does cron run it?
> >>
> >> The crontab(1) points out that a user can have
> >> their own crontab file, but seems a little vague
> >> about whether that implies anything about the
> >> user's own environment.
> >>
> >> Can you direct any error messages when
> >> the command is run to yourself?
> >
> > By default, cron emails the output of commands to the user the command
> > was run as, or root if it's a system cron job.
> >
> > So, the output of the command should be in his inbox.
>
> Incidentally, this is why "no news is good news."
>
>
That's good news.  Or is it?

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