On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Hai Yi wrote: > from CLI: crontab cronjob.txt > confirm the job: crontab -l > > then I sat tight waiting for the magic moment. Nothing happened.
This is a common problem and a pain to debug. The problem is that the shell environment created by cron isn't identical to your login shell, missing things like environment variaqbles. Try using the full paths to executables in the shell script, in case they are not defined, and try setting debug lines in the shell script to see how far cron is getting, lines like: echo "Reached line 23" >> /home/hyi/debug.log Yours, Chris _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech