On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:43:42PM -0600, Joseph Koenig wrote:
> > Joseph Koenig wrote:
> >> I've got an old RedHat 6.2 box that just does some IP aliasing and sharing
> >> of a DSL line - The system is an old 486 with 32MB of RAM. I recently put a
> >> script in cron to run every night. However, the script isn't being executed.
> >> I checked all of the normal things:
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> >> Does anyone have any ideas as to what in the world would cause cron not to
> >> even attempt to execute the script? I also tried putting the lynx command in
> >> a shell script and having cron execute the shell script. The shell script
> >> was set to executable and ran just fine manually.
> >>
> >> Any help would be much appreciated.
Have you looked at root's mail? cron tends to mail out errors or
other output for failed cron jobs.
Also, note that the environment expected by the intended user may
not (usually is not) present when run via cron, so you may need to
ensure that suitable environment variables are forced to desired
values when running the cron job.
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