> I'm not sure why but cron isn't working for me. I read the man page If you're new to solaris, where are you coming from?
I have found, the environment of a job run by "cron" is different from a job in "at" is different from your login prompt. All of these are different from the way they would have been in linux or some other platform. And even if you go from RHEL4 to RHEL5 or whatever ... All these things are just ridiculously inconsistent. So I use the following trick to get a more consistent environment wherever I go. It is very easy for a slight misunderstanding of your environment to cause you to think cron isn't working, when in fact it is. It's just not doing what you thought. I don't know precisely what your requirements are, but I'll bet the following will work, and will get you off to a start: Create a file called .crontab (or whatever you like) with the following line (or something appropriate for your environment) in it: * * * * * /usr/bin/bash -cl '/usr/bin/date > /timestamp.txt 2>&1' Then install it as your personal crontab. crontab .crontab _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org