Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

[Chris]

On 6/13/2012 6:23 PM, Walter Hurry wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote:
> 
>> The syntax of his crontab file is correct.  Vixie cron does care about
>> leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros.  Earlier versions
>> of cron are much pickier about the crontab file.   The cron logs show
>> that it is starting his jobs at the correct times.
>>
>> It is far more likely that there is a problem with the scripts.  A very
>> common cause of problems with scripts run from cron is that they do not
>> inherit your environment.   Do the scripts run from the command line? 
>> If the do, then the problem is most likely something in your environment
>> that the scripts need.
> 
> I'm a complete idiot, and I feel embarrassed. Everything was fine, except 
> that I had missed out '/bin' in the paths of the jobs.
> 
> I had:
> /home/walterh/exports.sh
> /home/walterh/backup_etc.sh
> /home/walterh/systemcheck.sh
> /home/walterh/backup_bsd.sh
> 
> which should of course have been:
> /home/walterh/bin/exports.sh
> /home/walterh/bin/backup_etc.sh
> /home/walterh/bin/systemcheck.sh
> /home/walterh/bin/backup_bsd.sh
> 
> What a stupid mistake! Thanks for all the replies, but I must say sorry 
> for wasting your time. Sorry!
> 
> WH

... Damned those full path names.


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Keep well,

Chris
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