Not necessary in this case. They're for error reporting and tidying up output from cron-jobs, but in your case I'd just ignore them. -- Rafael Fonseca www.nunca.com.br
On 30/07/2009, at 11:19 PM, Vassilis wrote: > Hello Rafael! > > I added the root there since it was there from a howto I found on a > german forum. I removed it and the script works, thank you! > > Seeing in the crontab file the daily, hourly, etc cron jobs, I noticed > the lines "[ -x /bin/run-parts ] && run-parts --report" in front of > the > command. I dont understand what they mean and should I add them to my > own cronjob aswell? > > Thank you for your help! > Vassilis > > > Rafael Fonseca schrieb: >> Why did you add the 'root' part in front of the script? AFAIK, that >> shouldn't be there. Just make sure you chmod 755 the script, and you >> don't even need to sh <script>, as you already have the #!/bin/sh >> line >> there, which tell whatever shell you're in that they should use sh to >> run your script. >> >> 2009/7/30 Vassilis <bigracc...@gmx.net <mailto:bigracc...@gmx.net>> >> >> Hello all! >> >> Since my ISP is disconnecting my connection every 24 hours I >> would like >> to make sure that happens in the early morning hours rather than >> at >> noon. >> >> After a bit of searching I found the .sh script that works but I >> havent >> managed to get it to work properly. >> >> This is the .sh script: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> # Reconnect and update DynDNS >> >> /etc/rc.d/uplinks stop main >> sleep 90 >> /usr/local/bin/setddns.pl >> sleep 30 >> /usr/local/bin/setddns.pl >> >> I made a folder called /customscripts and moved the .sh file in >> there. >> Running it manually via "sh <scriptname.sh> works perfectly, >> getting it >> to run at a specific time is where I am stuck. >> >> I edited the /etc/crontab file and added at the end: >> >> 30 3 * * * root /customscripts/reconnect.sh >> >> This should run the script at 03:30 in the morning but >> unfortunately it >> doest work. Since this is my first cronjob ever I am almost >> certain I >> have missed something trivial but important :-) >> >> Thank you! >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports >> 2008 >> 30-Day >> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - >> and >> focus on >> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new >> with >> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >> _______________________________________________ >> Efw-user mailing list >> Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports >> 2008 30-Day >> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - >> and focus on >> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Efw-user mailing list >> Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and > focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Efw-user mailing list > Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
