On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:34:36 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might want to try adding a PATH=<whatever your path is> before the > first command in the script.
Yep, I did that. I tried PATH=/home/ger/bin and when that didn't work PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11: etc, the whole bash environment variable. > I am not sure how you added the path to > the crontab entry, but it doesn't sound like your script is using it. I created a file in my home dir called "crontab", and then did crontab crontab. The new generated file appeared as /var/spool/cron/ger, and crontab -l showed its contents properly. > If it is using the default path, then it will not find any programs that > are not in /bin or /usr/bin. A couple of other things to be carefull of > > - some programs do not work well if you do not have an active ternimal. > - when run by crontab, you have a very limmited set of varables set. Just to see, I made another script to open a browser window. All it has is this: #!/bin/bash galeon It's called /home/ger/bin/gal and works from the command line. But not from cron. Those things you point out might be the reason... I'll use a command that always works and check it. Any suggestions? > > If you would post your crontab entry, and your script, we may be able to > give you more specific help. (Any error mail from crontab also...) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ger]$ crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (crontab installed on Wed Aug 4 18:50:32 2004) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) SHELL=/bin/bash MAILTO=ger PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jre-1.4.2_04/bin:/home/ger/bin */15 * * * * /home/ger/bin/gal That's the current content. Tha actual script I'm trying to run is an adaptation of Todd Slater's recently posted script to check a web page for new content. The only differences being that wget reads my galeon cookie file (it's a site that requires login) and that if there is any change Galeon opens a tab in the background. As I said, from the command line it works. Incidentally, about the mail. I've been looking for it, but I didn't want to ask different kinds of questions in the same email. The directory /var/spool/mail/ is empty and there's no mail-related stuff in my home dir. I've never yet read system mail so I don't know if there's a deamon that should be running and isn't, or something. Anyway, good pointers there, I'll try with other simple commands to see what happens. Thanks a lot. Germán.
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