Re: Restarting cron after crontab update
On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 15:59:38 +0100
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> Most probably cron will just see what you intended as a user
> name as part of the command:
>
> rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 11 > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> will run the command "rprice" on the args "/mnt..."; most of
> the time this will be a "no such file or so-and-so", sometimes
> it might lead to surprising results ;-)
In which event cron will send a complaining email to the appropriate
user. Since Mr. Price hasn't mentioned any such emails, I conjecture he
is not monitoring his emails in /var/mail, and probably should be.
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