Shell script in crontab cannot write files into FreeBSD's
filesystem. (2nd evised version)
Jonathan Chen
jonc at chen.org.nz
Wed Dec 5 11:15:49 PST 2007
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 04:02:29PM +0700, Supote Leelasuppakorn wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> Please anybody help me, I faced the problem with my "crontab".
> I tried to run a shell script which will fetch webpage and save it to
> a directory by using wget but after few minute I cannot see any file
> in such directory
>
> Below are content of shell script, my crontab and also
> file's permission listing.
>
> ##########################
> # Output of `crontab -l`
> ##########################
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> MAILTO=pjn
> * * * * * . /home/pjn/parseGP/fetchPage.sh
^
You've got a "." as your command. Attempting to execute a directory
is Not Good.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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