Has anyone else noticed you can't run a shell script from crond when the
script is called from /etc/crontab?
I noticed that a while back on Mandrake 7.2 and now the same happened on
a RH6.2 box. Used to work on my RH5.1 box!
On a related note, has anyone any nice ideas about appending crontab
entries to a user crontab file? I mean, how to do it unattended. Perhaps
some manipulation of the EDITOR variable perhaps? Creating a new crontab
is easy, appending is the problem which led me to use /etc/crontab in
the first place..
Donncha.
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