Re: root crontab

2008-12-03 Thread Rick Troth
Excellent recommendation from John, but ... On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, John McKown wrote: ... What I do in many cases is have cron run a script. That script then sources /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile. Another possibility would be to have cron run a login shell * * * * * /bin/bash -L

root crontab

2008-11-13 Thread Jones, Russell
I am running Slack/390 10.1, and I am trying to schedule a cron job to run with root authority. Nothing I put in the root crontab seems to be firing. This is the first cron task that I have attempted to set up as root. Is there more that needs to be done than just add the entry in crontab to set

Re: root crontab

2008-11-13 Thread Mark Post
On 11/13/2008 at 12:53 PM, Jones, Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running Slack/390 10.1, and I am trying to schedule a cron job to run with root authority. Nothing I put in the root crontab seems to be firing. This is the first cron task that I have attempted to set up as root

Re: root crontab

2008-11-13 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Mark Post wrote: On 11/13/2008 at 12:53 PM, Jones, Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running Slack/390 10.1, and I am trying to schedule a cron job to run with root authority. Nothing I put in the root crontab seems to be firing. This is the first cron task that I