Re: [cobalt-users] More Crontab Issues

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Daren Cotter wrote:

> As a test to getting crontab to work, I added the following line to my
> crontab.master file:
> 
> 15 10 * * * root /home/sites/home/users/admin/aw/aw-parser.pl -vw
> 17 10 * * * root /home/sites/home/users/admin/aw/aw-report.pl -vw
> 
> This should run the first script at 10:15 and the second at 10:17. However,
> it just doesn't run! I get no errors, the thing just does not run. The
> scripts are chmodded to 755, and yes I did stop and restart crond...any
> ideas?

Do the files have the path to perl at the beginning? cron's not to smart
about starting scripts that need interpreters...

or start the line with an implicit call to perl so you get at least a
complaint from perl which tends to be more helpfill...