--- On Fri, 28/8/09, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ilugc] why is my cron not working > To: "ILUG-C" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, 28 August, 2009, 5:03 PM > On Friday 28 Aug 2009 4:45:16 pm > Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > > For cron normally error message will be directed > to mail. Look at root's > > > mail. > > > > now I am getting mail to root: '/bin/sh: planet.py: > command not found' > > solved in both boxes. For apachectl: > > cd /usr/sbin; ./apache2ctl restart > > and for planet > > 0,5,10,15,40,41,50,51,52,57 * * * * cd /home/ilugc/planet/; > ./planet.py > examples/fancy/config.ini >> ./planet.log; > > apparently cron is totally brain dead and needs to be > spoonfed Cron only executes the command as the user, it doesn't run .profile, .bash_profile etc., So it has no way of getting $PATH etc. Raman.P blog:http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com/ See the Web's breaking stories, chosen by people like you. Check out Yahoo! Buzz. http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
