Strange cron behavior

Philip Hallstrom freebsd at philip.pjkh.com
Tue Oct 3 21:15:40 PDT 2006


> I'm having a hard time getting cron to run a task. I've run crontab -e
> (as root), and added the following line:
>
> 12 * * * * /usr/local/bin/mirror_ubuntu
>
> This script runs from teh command line. Now I've seen plenty of
> strange beahviour because of the limited environment cron tasks
> get, but a basic "echo "test" >> /tmp/stan isn't even creating
> the file.
>
> Sugestions?

Is the cron daemon running?  What is the output in /var/log/cron?

-p


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