On Wednesday, August 7, 2002, at 07:15 , Ian Ragsdale wrote:
> On 8/7/02 8:06 PM, "Noah Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know how to do this? I've added my lines to the crontab
>> file for
>> root in /private/etc. They look something like this:
>>
>> "00 2 * * * root perl
> /Volumes/Builds/Development/build.pl
>>
>
> My guess is that perl is not in your path when cron runs the script. Try
> changing that to '/usr/bin/perl' and see if it works.
alternatively one could change the permission bits
chmod 755 /Volumes/Builds/Development/build.pl
and just 'execute' it in the form
00 2 * * * /Volumes/Builds/Development/build.pl
I would highly recommend that you do NOT try to
have it pop up a window. Letting things run in
crontab means that they will send you email -
assuming that you have sendmail running - and
you can read the 'output' in the morning, when
you are sane and sober.
alternatively you can just have it dump off
to a log file and check that logfile when
you have the time and inclination.
recommendations would include
/usr/local/etc/<project_name>
in due regards for the old BSD's
or into
/var/logs/<project_name>
or .....
ciao
drieux
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