On Thursday, August 8, 2002, at 12:37 , Noah Hoffman wrote:

> In crontab, I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I'm not getting 
> email either.  Do you know what I'm missing?  I thought I was getting the 
> 'cannot create temp file' error because I wasn't root, but the crontab 
> line is as follows:
>
> 16  12  *  *  *  root open Volumes/Builds/Development/perl.pl.command
>
> Any thoughts?

p0: set your cronjob up as just a cronjob - and not
an open .command style - this way it will 'just run'

p1: have it chdir /tmp - where it should be allowed
to get away with almost anything - better there than
to have it sitting on / or in some unknown place....


ciao
drieux

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