Re: crontab running scripts

2001-05-31 Thread Hamma Scott
I'd verify to see if you put the paths to these external programs into the PATH variable it would work. you can type $export PATH = ::$PATH = the absolute path of the external programs you are calling. If there are more than one, like the above example, use colons to separate. If that works, th

Re: crontab running scripts

2001-05-31 Thread Mike Egglestone
AIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 7:50 PM Subject: crontab running scripts Hi there, I would like to know how I can get e.g. this crontab entry * * * * * /usr/local/bin/foo -options arg1 arg2 to run right. Foo is a script that calls external programs itself that need the

Re: crontab running scripts

2001-05-31 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:50:53AM +0200, Andr? Borman wrote: > I would like to know how I can get e.g. this crontab entry > * * * * * /usr/local/bin/foo -options arg1 arg2 > to run right. > options and arguments. It seems that when foo is executed, the external > programs are not executed because

crontab running scripts

2001-05-30 Thread André Borman
Hi there, I would like to know how I can get e.g. this crontab entry * * * * * /usr/local/bin/foo -options arg1 arg2 to run right. Foo is a script that calls external programs itself that need the mentioned options and arguments. It seems that when foo is executed, the external programs are n