Need help on Crontab

m_thangbk · 08-05-2002, 01:47 AM

I create a file like this to run a script every minute:

SHELL = /bin/sh
MAILTO = prima
#
* * * * * /home/prima/mail.php

I got tons of emails return to me. All of them contain this message:
sh: /home/prima/mail.php
: No such file or directory
The problem is I CAN execute /home/prima/mail.php in the command line, but crond refused to run it.
This is a CPanel based server.

Tinkster · 08-05-2002, 06:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by m_thangbk

* * * * * /home/prima/mail.php

I got tons of emails return to me. All of them contain this message:
sh: /home/prima/mail.php
: No such file or directory
The problem is I CAN execute /home/prima/mail.php in the command line, but crond refused to run it.

Gidday ...

Maybe my guess is in a totally wrong direction,
but what user did you assign the cron-job to?
You might have a problem with permissions...

Cheers,
Tink

naz · 08-06-2002, 10:29 AM

what's the first (#!) line at the top of your script? is it pointing to the correct interpreter for your script?

naz

m_thangbk · 08-06-2002, 11:02 AM

Thanks for your helps. I've found the solution

. The problem was that the crontab file was created in Windoze and uploaded into the server in binary mode (shame on me

). This made the script's name incorrect ( a Carriage Return character was added into the file name). The errror message made me totally confused