[GRLUG] crontab not running a working script

[Michael Mol]

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

I see what you did there.

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