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" <kevin_brown@qwest.net>
> 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.
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