On 05/10/10 18:49, John Cooper wrote: > On 05/10/10 18:25, Vic wrote: [snip excellent advice]
>>> How do I get cron to run them and where do I find any logs files that >>> may >>> point to what is going wrong? show us the output of crontab -l as the user who owns these scripts? plus ls -l /path/to/scripts >> Check root's email. cron can mail anyone you tell it to, but if you >> haven't specified someone (and I doubt that you have), root tends to get >> the reports. well, only if the jobs are in root's crontab. ...which is just plain wrong - that's what /etc/cron.d is for (okay, that's a matter of opinion and a little off-track for this) [...snip other excellent advice...] I'm not sure exactly what webmin does with cron. But setting it up manually could be achieved with a bit of advice (and it's a good learning experience too) https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto (while I don't agree with all of it, it's mostly pretty good) Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------