On Thursday, July 25, 2002, at 09:44 , Max Hugen wrote:
[..]
> I am trying to run this from Cron every 5 minutes, but being as unfamilair
> with Cron as with Perl, I having problems - the cron job does not seem to
> run. My entry in /etc/crontab is:
> */5 * * * * root perl /home/sites/sa/cgi-bin/test.pl
>
> If anyone could suggest what I'm doing wrong, I'd most appreciate it!
[..]
I run a perl script from cron at just before midnight in the form:
13 23 * * * cd /net/gax/home/drieux/bin; ./phase3.txt
I have never seen this format
*/5
for every five minutes but have seen
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * do_foo
I likewise have not seen this 'root perl' unless it is
that you mean to do some sort of
su root -c perl /path/to/command
or more accuratly, should have put this into root's
crontab to begin with...
it is best to remember that cron will give you a
very limited environment - with maybe
/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
rather than a full fancy environment...
ciao
drieux
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