| Barry Margolin 2006-01-08, 5:57 pm |
| In article <dppmco$eea$1@bunyip2.cc.uq.edu.au>,
"sheller" <arasu@uq.edu.au> wrote:
> My crontab command in RedHat 8 is
>
> */1 * * * * /home/arasuk/share_file/searcha
>
> The above command works fine with the following
> simple script put in "searcha" (executable)
>
> #!/bin/sh
> ls
>
> . But not with the following
>
> #!/bin/sh
> cp r.file r.out
What error does it get?
>
> This latter script work in command line. I give absolute path
> to the command. Any clue for the latter to work?
If it complains "file not found", it's probably because cron isn't
running the script in the directory you expect.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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