It >SHOULD< do so... but do be aware that just because a script executes from the command line does NOT mean that it will execute when run as root from a cron job.... you may have to do anything from starting an explicit shell to defining some (normally defined) environment variables for that script, etc. Root runs with a very minimal set of environment variables, and cron restricts it even slightly more.... Of course, I'm a guy who's paranoid about running jobs as root without being very explicit. You might want to write the script to echo EVERYTHING it does to the screen (you'll get it as an email message from cron with it in it) so that you can see every result. You may find a bug that does not exist in a command line execution. Bill Ward -----Original Message----- From: Erik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 11, 1999 9:10 PM To: Redhat List Cc: recipient.list.not.shown Subject: cron Hi, I have a quick question. If I put a file in my /etc/cron.daily directory, it will be executed daily? For example, I put a file called ntp.cron in my /etc/cron.daily directory and made it it was executable. Provided the script I wrote in it work (it does I tested it), will that be enough to make it work? TIA, erik -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
