Re: odd cron returns

2000-02-05 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I've read somewhere that you can't use $HOME in a crontab entry, although I haven't personally verified this. Try filling in the full path... On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 10:40:06AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the crontab file mycron with the contents [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ crontab -l

Re: odd cron returns

2000-02-05 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Scratch that... it seems to work fine, at least on potato. On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 07:32:31PM -0600, Gregory T. Norris wrote: I've read somewhere that you can't use $HOME in a crontab entry, although I haven't personally verified this. Try filling in the full path...

odd cron returns

2000-02-04 Thread hawk
I have the crontab file mycron with the contents [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ crontab -l 1,11,21,31,41,51 * * * * /usr/local/bin/updatehw $HOME/tmp.quizlog which results in the crontab entry of # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.4hHwFM installed on Tue Feb

Re: odd cron returns

2000-02-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 10:40:06AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] : That is, it's not executingthe command in the crontab, but a differetn one : --note thatthe becomes a 2 : : How do I fix this? What I need here is for cron to *not* send any : mail at all--this account exists to