Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron setup

2006-04-03 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 4/3/06, Carl Zwanzig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In some versions of linux, it is used to run things hourly/daily/ > weekly/monthly. I see it in both suse and redhat with things like > logrotate, tripwire, and makewhatis. OTOH, none of my bsd systems are set > up this way. For the sake of post

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron setup

2006-04-03 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Do the other scripts in /etc/cron.daily run? > > This is not the normal way to run a script with cron. The normal way is > to put an entry in the crontab of the user that specifies what to run > and when. See 'man crontab' and 'man 5 crontab

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron setup

2006-04-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jewel wrote: >I am not able to figure out why my script is not running which I have >setup with cron. I created a script, which I made executable and placed >in the /etc/cron.daily directory. Cron is running but my script never >executes. Can someone help me figure out why? Do the other sc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron setup

2006-04-03 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 4/3/06, Jewel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in the /etc/cron.daily directory. Cron is running but my script never > executes. Can someone help me figure out why? Check your /var/log/syslog for messages from cron indicating why it may not have run your script. Also, check your /etc/crontab to b

[Mailman-Users] Cron setup

2006-04-03 Thread Jewel
I am not able to figure out why my script is not running which I have setup with cron. I created a script, which I made executable and placed in the /etc/cron.daily directory. Cron is running but my script never executes. Can someone help me figure out why? -- Jewel -