Kevin, Thanks! You were right about the username. As soon as I took that out, everything worked like a charm. Micah DesJardins > From: "Kevin Brown" > Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 11:06:20 -0700 > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > Subject: Re: cron job issues.. > > Micah DesJardins wrote: > >> 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. > > /var/log/cron under linux. Might be best to also specify the full path to the > script: > > 10 10 * * * /usr/bin/dbbackupscript > > think your user name in the file might be messing it up since the cron file is > already yours and so it may be trying to run mdesjard and not finding it > instead > of running dbbackupscript. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss