I'm having issues getting a cronjob to run under Darwin
(Ok, it's Mac OS Server 10.2.7 , but still! It's Darwin/BSD/OpenSource on
the inside!)

I'm having trouble getting a Cron job to run as a specific user (mdesjard).

I've tried adding the job via crontab mycrontab and crontab -e logged in as
this user.. And finally
sudo crontab -u mdesjard mycrontab

The crontab entry looks like this:

10      10      *       *       *       mdesjard        dbbackupscript

The only other active lines in the file are environment variables:

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
HOME=/var/log

dbbackupscript is a bash script that basically hfstars the contents of a
folder, and scps it over to the home directory of the same user on a
different machine.  Because I have DSA keys generated, it doesn't ask for a
password for the scp.

I've tested it many times and from the command line it works great.
I dropped it into /usr/bin and
The permissions on the script are as follows
-rwxr--r--  1 mdesjard  staff    533 Mar 30 13:26 dbbackupscript


/var/cron/tabs shows an mdesjard tab with the appropriate entry (listed
above)

Is there any place cron would be dumping error messages? I'm mystified as to
what's happening but as far as I can tell, the job simply isn't going off.

Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
-- 
Micah DesJardins

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