Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!umigw!steve From: steve@umigw.MIAMI.EDU (steve emmerson) Newsgroups: comp.os.eunice Subject: need cron help Summary: how? Message-ID: <197@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> Date: 7 Dec 88 14:23:22 GMT Reply-To: steve@umigw.miami.edu (steve emmerson) Followup-To: comp.os.eunice Distribution: na Organization: University of Miami Lines: 24 I can't get my cron(1) to work. This crontab line works: * * * * * system /usr/bin/touch /usr_steve/tmp/croncheck1 But this one doesn't: * * * * * system /usr_steve/tmp/crontest Where "/usr_steve/tmp/crontest" contains: #!/bin/sh /bin/echo hello world > /usr_steve/tmp/croncheck2 and it doesn't work even when owned by "system". The EUNICE is BSD 4.3.2 on a microVax-III with VMS 4.7. Any ideas? -- Steve Emmerson Inet: steve@umigw.miami.edu [128.116.10.1] SPAN: miami::emmerson (host 3074::) emmerson%miami.span@star.stanford.edu UUCP: ...!ncar!umigw!steve emmerson%miami.span@vlsi.jpl.nasa.gov "Computers are like God in the Old Testament: lots of rules and no mercy"