Re: [Nolug] A cron job that won't work, for some reason.

I tried that first with my php scripts, but no luck. I still needed the
full path to the executable.

P

>
> The way I've allways solved these things was to put
> the thing I wanted to run into a script. Then, I have
> cron execute the script.
>
> Wouldn't that simplify the syntax a whole bunch?
>
> Wouldn't that make it really easy to maintain?
>
> Randy
>
> --- Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've got this in my user's crontab, but it doesn't
>> seem
>> to work.
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> MAILTO=""
>> */5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh # this
>> works!
>>
>> # this doesn't. I want to run it at 00:03:00 on the
>> 1st
>> # day of each month. The "\" continuation
>> characters were
>> # added by me just now, to make it easier to read in
>> the
>> # email.
>> 3 0 1 * * (mv ~/mailfilter.log \
>> ~/mailfilter-`date --date '1 month ago'
>> +"%Y-%m"`.log \
>> && touch ~/mailfilter.log)
>>
>> Running the command interactively works fine, so it
>> must be something simple that I'm missing.
>>
>> Thanks
>> --
>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
>>
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