[ale] cron question

[Geoffrey]

Geoffrey wrote:
> Marvin, International Martian of Mystery wrote:
>> I have a cron job set to run thusly in my root crontab:
>>
>>
>> [root at zminder root]# crontab -l
>> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
>> # (/tmp/crontab.12165 installed on Mon Apr 24 22:56:36 2006)
>> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
>> 0 1 * * * /var/www/html/zm/events/cleanup.sh
>>
>>
>>
>> As you can see it's supposed to run every morning at 1 AM.  This is the
>> script it's supposed to run:
> 
> I suspect that it's because you're using relative paths.  If this is the 
> root crontab, it's going to cd in reference to $HOME for root which is 
> /root on most boxes.  You should also fully qualify your calls to 
> binaries (/binrm).

That should have been (/bin/rm)...  more coffee....

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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