On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> 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!
I have RH6.2 and I don't see any problems with scripts.
Where is the problem?
> 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..
Why would you want to do that?
Josip Deanovic
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