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On Wed, 1 Jul 1998 07:54:41 +0200 (CEST), Zoki wrote:

>On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Slyglif Cain wrote:
>->Actually, the problem is the script.  When you do "sh <filename>" from
>->a command prompt, you are explicitly telling Linux what shell to use.
>->For the script to work from crontab, you have to be able to type
>->"<filename>" (no alias for sh) to run the command from a prompt.  To
>->make this happen, you MUST put "#!/bin/sh" as the first line of the
>->script.
>
>
>*** So why is it I have #!/bin/sh as the first line in any script and it
>still doesn't work? BTW, even with that line in the script, I still have
>to type sh [script] in order to run it.

Probably because you didn't make it executable.  Try:

     chmod +x scriptname


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