Cron quirk

Keith Morse kgmorse at mpcu.com
Mon Mar 15 07:34:59 UTC 2004


On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Aeryn wrote:

> Hello all, I have a little frustrating problem with cron.  I have a script
> that mails me some reports.  I set a cronjob to mail me the reports at a
> certain time.  However, the reports are never mailed.  If I run the script
> from the command line, it works fine.   Other cronjobs I have work fine too.
> It is just this one script, which uses sendmail, just does not want to send
> me anything as a cronjob...
> 
> Any thoughts?


Off the top of my head these things come to mind.

	permissions on the script are incorrect

	shell enviroment that the script creates is lacking the necessary
	pathing for the commands located therein.





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