>It simpley doesn't work. I can't make crontab execute any command. The
>pppon I use to get on the Net works when started manually, via the crontab
>I get an erromessage it doesn't exist. I tryed your way which also doesn't
>want to work on my box. Another thing I don't understand is why the
>results of commands started with crontab are mailed to me instead of
>executed and shown on the screen? I did a small test with ls /home/... in
>crontab and I got the result mailed... Basically, at this point I don't
>understand why a simple thing like calling the ppp-on via crontab doesn't
>work; not as user (manually it does) and not as root!
>Zoki.
Excuse me, but how is cron supposed to display something on the screen?
It isn't attached to any terminals, so anything to stdout/stderr goes into
the bit bucket. To see the results of stderr/stdout, one has to tell cron
what to do with it. That is why the uptime line's output was piped into mail.
You could send the output into a file, if you so desired.
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