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I have a script called 'faxscript' that I want cron to run every 20 minutes.
I used crontab -e to put this in:
Code:
#run faxscript to send faxes every 20 minutes between 3am and 10pm
*/20 3-22 * * * . /usr/local/faxqueue/faxscript
unfortunately that's not working for some reason. Do I need to type something specific to get the script to run? i.e. maybe remove the . before the /usr?
Also, can anyone tell me how to make it run every 20 minutes around the clock instead of just between 3am and 10pm?
It's in root's crontab and I can manually run it as root and so I'm not sure why that would be happening. Do I need to rename the file faxscript.sh or something? Maybe change the ownership for it? Else, does cron default to running it as non-root?
Ok, so I found out that only /etc/crontab supports the username feature. So I tried it there but got the same error. Next I just changed the permissions to 775. The good news is I no longer get a permissions error. The bad news is the script still doesn't seem to be executed. I say seem b/c I'm not getting an error email of any kind the output of the cron job (which faxes a file then erases it) still doesn't work.
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