On Sun, 6 May 2001, Kadari Mayson wrote:
> I admit that I have never really had to use cron often so I am having a
> bit of trouble. I have already read the man pages on cron and the
> instructions on analog.cx about logrotate, but I still get errors adding
> Analog to cron.
>
> I called crontab by typing 'sudo crontnab -e -u root', then all I did
> was add a line at the end that said:
>
> 0 5 * * * /bin/sh
> /usr/local/bin/analog/analog
>
> It seemed as if this is all I had to do. This AM, I got a message from
> the Cron Daemon that said:
>
> ^¿^«^A?^C¿‡^D¨: not found
> †: not found
> /usr/local/bin/analog/analog: ∏X^œ/^C/: not found
> /usr/local/bin/analog/analog: /.^Ha^?^]n/a^?^Cø^ÿNq: not found
> No: not found
> Failure: not found
> Bad: not found
> Cannot: not found
> crt0:: not found
> ld.so: not found
> /usr/local/bin/analog/analog: 17: Syntax error: Bad fd number
>
> What exactly am i doing wrong? I know that it's the correct path to
> analog, but I am guessing more needs to be done for this to work.
>
You don't want the /bin/sh. That will make it try to interpret analog as a
shell script. (All that mess is commands that /bin/sh is trying to run.)
Just leave out the /bin/sh and it will run the program as a program.
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