cronjob doesn't run???

Tom Vilot tom at vilot.com
Mon Dec 27 22:46:14 PST 2004


Might be a path issue.

I had similar issues with cron (/etc/periodic/daily) if I didn't use a 
full path to the binaries.

:c(



> i have an odd problem with this cronjob,
>
> #!/bin/sh
> cd /home/timothy
> burncd -f /dev/acd0c blank
> tar -zcvf  ./burning/thunderbird.tar.gz ./.thunderbird/*
> tar -zcvf ./burning/Projects.tar.gz ./Projects/*
> tar -zcvf ./burning/cvsd.tar.gz /usr/local/cvsd/*
> mkisofs -L -l -relaxed-filenames -o tmp.iso burning
> burncd -e -f /dev/acd0c data tmp.iso
> rm tmp.iso
> rm burning/*
>
>
> n# ls -l /etc/periodic/daily/Backup
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  323 Dec 27 22:42 /etc/periodic/daily/Backup
>
> as you can see it's not a permissions issue. the job must do 
> something, because i end up with a cdrw i can't mount :\
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