-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Cayford
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 9:37 AM
To: LEAF User List
Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Cron script not working?


Hey, did you try putting the full path names in your script? That's 
something that trips me up all the time.

-Steve

On Sunday, October 7, 2001, at 08:39  AM, John P wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I put together a little script to e-mail me the day's bandwidth usage, 
> which
> would simply run ipchains and show its accounting figures and e-mail 
> them to
> me, then reset the counters..
>
> # cat bandwidth.sh
> #!/bin/ash
> touch /tmp/runnow
> ipchains -n -v -L output | mail john@myaddress
> ipchains -Z
>
> This script has permissions level 777 and is owned by root:root.
>
> my /etc/crontab file includes:
> # m h dom mon dow user  command
> 40 6    * * *   sh-httpd savelog -g adm -m 640 -u sh-httpd -c 4
> /var/sh-log/sh-httpd.log
> 42 6    * * *   root    run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
> 47 6    * * 7   root    run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly
> 52 6    1 * *   root    run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly
> 0 8     * * *   root    /root/bandwidth.sh
>
> I am using Eigerstein-2B.
>
> Basically, it Doesn't Work. No script gets run. I tried restarting cron,
> tried putting the /root/bandwidth.sh script in /etc/cron.daily/, but 
> that
> didn't make any difference. Run manually from a command line, it works 
> ok,
> just never from cron. Nothing goes in the logs either.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Cheers
> John
>
>
>
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