On Wednesday 04 October 2006 01:05, stan wrote: > 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.
You can set environmental variables in the crontab file, see crontab(5) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"