Re: crob chgrp

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Chris Robinson <list@krc.org.uk>:
> 
>  I am trying to run the [following] in woody using cron so my cron
> 
>  2,12,22,32,42,52 * * * * /path to macro

I assume this is in /etc/crontab, yes?  You need to tell cron who to
run it by:

   2,12,22,32,42,52 * * * * root /path to macro

>  #!/bin/sh                                                              
>  #                                                                      
>  #                                                                      
>  chgrp -R nogroup /usr/local/apache2/www/foodmanagementsystems.com/gary 
> 
>  I can not find a log.  The macro does not work via cron.  The macro runs 

Logs are in /var/log.  See "messages" and "daemon.log" there.  BTW,
try this (in X Window at a command line):

   xman -notopbox -bothshown &

A pointy-clicky interface to manpages.  In section 5, "File Formats",
crontab mentions you can do (eg.)

   */10 * * * * root /path to macro

for it to execute every ten minutes.


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