I edited my crontab to explicitly define the path to the special file, however it still fails to create a dtach instance:
~$ crontab -l | grep irssi @reboot /home/bb/bin/dtach -n /home/bb/.dtach/irssi irssi 2>&1 > ~/.dtach/irssi.cron ~$ ls -l ~/.dtach/ total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 bb bb 0 2007-08-29 11:15 irssi.cron ~$ cat ~/.dtach/irssi.cron ~$ The fact that ~/.dtach/irssi.cron is created, but is empty, suggests that the crontab entry was executed but without any error message generated. Fwiw, I would expect dtach to issue an error if the ~ was not expanded, and indeed it does: ~$ /home/bb/bin/dtach -n '~/.dtach/irssi' irssi < /dev/null /home/bb/bin/dtach: ~/.dtach/irssi: No such file or directory ~$ /home/bb/bin/dtach -n ~/.dtach/irssi irssi < /dev/null ~$ ls -l ~/.dtach/ total 0 srw------- 1 bb bb 0 2007-08-29 11:18 irssi -rw-r--r-- 1 bb bb 0 2007-08-29 11:15 irssi.cron ~$ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
