[Q] Cron frustration.....

[Donovan J. Edye]

G'Day,

Thanks to all. Adding absolute pathing did indeed fix that. Now if only I
could get a boot floppy to recognise my ISA PnP Ethernet card. *sigh*

-- D

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	linux-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:linux-admin at lists.samba.org]  On
Behalf Of Donovan J. Edye
Sent:	Sunday, 20 October 2002 14:37
To:	Linux List
Subject:	[Q] Cron frustration.....

G'Day,

I am sure this is simple one, but for the life of me I cannot see why this
won't work. I have the following:

donovan at moe:~/seti$ ls -al setia*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 donovan  donovan        19 Oct 14 19:57 setiathome ->
/usr/bin/setiathome

and a crontab entry of:

# Attempt to start SETI every 5 mins. If already running this will be
ignored
2,7,12,17,22,27,32,37,42,47,52,57 * * * * cd ~/seti; ./setiathome -nice
19 -proxy 192.168.40.10:5517

Now I see the following in syslog:

Oct 20 14:37:01 moe /USR/SBIN/CRON[16974]: (donovan) CMD (cd ~/seti;
./setiathome -nice 19 -proxy 192.168.40.10:5517)

However the process never appears to start. Running it from the command line
(using the above shell commands works fine)

How can I debug this?

TIA

-- Donovan
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