crontab

Xris718 · 08-15-2005, 12:04 PM

Hi guys

My crontab doesnt work for some reason here is whats in it.

This is just testing purposes but it doesnt remove the "killme" file. So what gives?

30 * * * * rm /home/yuri/perl/killme >/dev/null 2>&1

ls -l killme
-rw-r--r-- 1 yuri users 0 Aug 15 12:38 killme

crond is running

Half_Elf · 08-15-2005, 12:07 PM

cron doesn't run as "yuri" (the only users allowed to write to that file) so it doesn't have the permission to delete your file.

try to change the ownership of the file to "nobody" or to chmod to 666.

Xris718 · 08-15-2005, 12:10 PM

but i edited the crontab entry as yuri not as root. And the file is in my home directory so why cant i delete it?

Xris718 · 08-15-2005, 12:14 PM

chmod 666 killme

but still the file exists. crontab doesnt remove it. Any other ideas?

Xris718 · 08-15-2005, 12:33 PM

also tried same command as root and doesnt work either.

Half_Elf · 08-15-2005, 01:03 PM

look like I was wrong...

my guess would be to change the ">/dev/null 2>&1" for "> /tmp/error" so you would see the error message next time it fails.