>>> On 11/13/2008 at 12:53 PM, "Jones, Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running Slack/390 10.1, and I am trying to schedule a cron job to > run with root authority. Nothing I put in the root crontab seems to be > firing. This is the first cron task that I have attempted to set up as > root. Is there more that needs to be done than just add the entry in > crontab to set up a new cron user?
There shouldn't be. Usually failure of crontab entries to work are related to assuming that the various environment variables a user normally has (such as PATH) will be set when cron fires off the task. They aren't. So, instead of having commands like "cp from to" you should try "/bin/cp from to" and so forth. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390