Hello, all, I know we discussed briefly that bash scripts and cron jobs interact in less than intuitive ways.
The following cron command, for example, is in the system's cron (at least that's what I *think* I'm editing when I do "crontab -e" as root) of a Samba print server. 0 0 * * * /root/synch_printers_from 10.0.0.7 &> /root/lastsynch.log First of all, am I right in my guess that /root/lastsynch.log doesn't show anything because there's a space betwen the ">" and the "/"? Oops... More importantly, though, the "/root/synch_printers_from" script here basically pulls down Samba and CUPS, copies over configuration files from the target server (using scp) and then brings Samba and CUPS back up. However, while it seems to work perfectly every single time I run it directly through bash it seems to fail to bring samba back up every single time it runs as a cron job. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I might look for a culprit? Simón _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
