At 04:21 PM 2/3/00 +0100, Nick Afshartous wrote:
>
>I'm having trouble getting cron to exec under RH 6.1. Even
>a simple job to 'ls' every minute does not fly as shown below.
>If I put a script in /etc/cron.hourly that works though.
>Thanks for any tips.
>--
>
> Nick
>
> crontab -l
># DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
># (cronentries installed on Thu Feb 3 09:40:21 2000)
># (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
>* * * * * ls >$HOME/foo
>
>
Chances are that $HOME is not defined when the job is run. Did you look for
foo in the root directory? (It works for me if I put in the full path for
$HOME.)
Mikkel
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