Hello

I need to update my DB twice a day.
So I started to do some experimenting on cron but it just doesn't work for me.

I tried it on my PC (FC3) and server (CentOS 3) but the results are the same.

My script looks like this
By right it should output the results into a txt file (output) right.
But it doesn't.

I have run it on a terminal and the script woks fine.

I even tried it in an at job, it also works.

But for cron no results were found.
My "crontab -l" returns
It should be running everyday at 0101 right. But it didn't

My /var/log/cron looks like this
This is what I did
1. I type "crontab -e" and entered
01 01 * * * /home/intuition/insert.sh

2. I then entered ":wq" to write and quit the editor

Did I do something wrong?

I have even tried
crontab -l > mycron

then
vi mycron and entered 10 01 * * * /home/intuition/insert.sh

finally
crontab mycron

when 0110 come still no results

Please give some insights, please ...

I ran the exact same entries (except the time ofcourse) and got the outputfile correctly in my home folder.

A few things to try out:
- Give 'output' an absolute path, tho it did work with just output for me
- activate / install sendmail. Youll get any errors in a mail, sent to your user.

Now, im running dcron (Dillon's Cron daemon) that came with slackware, so the difference could be actually another crond, but the syntax should be the same.

10s for the idea Artanicus
i change my script to absolute path and it worked

what a silly mistake

peace....

Yeah, but now you have a random "ouptut" file on your hd