Re: Newbie: cron.hourly problem

2004-03-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Goran Christiansson: > More Information: > The shell script files have executable permission, and the good one actually > gets run, but it does not do what I want. > > I put in a "touch test.hourly" just to see that the script is run, and the > file is created. > > #!/bin/bash > ncf

Re: Newbie: cron.hourly problem

2004-03-11 Thread Goran Christiansson
More Information: The shell script files have executable permission, and the good one actually gets run, but it does not do what I want. I put in a "touch test.hourly" just to see that the script is run, and the file is created. Here is the shell script that I would like to have run once an hour.

Re: Newbie: cron.hourly problem

2004-03-11 Thread CW Harris
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:48:02PM +0100, Goran Christiansson wrote: > Thanks, > Goran > > shellscript in /etc/conf.hourly--- > #!/bin/bash > # > # Move Photos > > cd ~goran > bash movephotos.sh Oh, forgot to mention in my other post... If this is just some us

Re: Newbie: cron.hourly problem

2004-03-11 Thread CW Harris
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:48:02PM +0100, Goran Christiansson wrote: > Dear Group, > > I cannot get the cron to work the way I expect it to. (on a Sarge machine) > (after having read the man pages, searched this list and googled) > > Maybe I misunderstood something... > > I put a shell script fi

Newbie: cron.hourly problem

2004-03-11 Thread Goran Christiansson
Dear Group, I cannot get the cron to work the way I expect it to. (on a Sarge machine) (after having read the man pages, searched this list and googled) Maybe I misunderstood something... I put a shell script file in /etc/cron.hourly and I expected it to run once an hour. the syslog tells me th