Re: Newbie: cron.hourly problem
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:48:02PM +0100, Goran Christiansson wrote:
> Dear Group,
>
> I cannot get the cron to work the way I expect it to. (on a Sarge machine)
> (after having read the man pages, searched this list and googled)
>
> Maybe I misunderstood something...
>
> I put a shell script file in /etc/cron.hourly and I expected it to run once
> an hour.
Sarge has a cron.hourly? I guess I need to get up-to-date on things :)
>
> the syslog tells me that cron does something:
>
> Mar 11 15:17:01 sigurd /USR/SBIN/CRON[23344]: (root) CMD (
> run-parts --report
> /etc/cron.hourly)
>
> However, the shellscript is not run.
Does the script have executable permissions?
> The shellscript works fine when I type the name on the prompt.
> See below, the shellscript text.
Which one? The one in cron.hourly or movephotos.sh (that cron.hourly one
calls)?
>
> Any hints would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Goran
>
> ----shellscript in /etc/conf.hourly-------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> # Move Photos
>
> cd ~goran
> bash movephotos.sh
>
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