debugging crontab

[Uwe Kiewel]

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Christoph Höger wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've got a problem with my offlineimap setup under f11 (under f9 and f10
> it works well):
> 
> I have: 
> */5 * * * * DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/offlineimap -u Gnome.GnomeUI /dev/null
> 2>&1 #JOB_ID_1
> 

Is there a ">" missing between Gnone.GnomeUI and /dev/null in your command?

In an ober case remove the output redirection to /dev/null. Cron will
generate an email with the output of the cronjob.

> in crontab. 
> 
> Running offlineimap directly works well (so its no issue with GnomeUI).
> The cronjob hangs forever. 
> 
> Any ideas how I can figure out whats different in both cases?
> 
> regards
> 
> christoph
> 

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