[SWLUG] Crontab difficulties

[nat]

On 21 Dec 2004, at 21:12, Neil Jones wrote:

>
> I am trying to get a program to run every minute using crontab.
> using crontab -e I have set up the following.
>
> * * * * * /programpath etc.
>
> The program simply waits a random number of extra seconds and saves 
> the time
> before the wait and after to a file.
>
> Running it from the command line. It works.
> However nothing seems to happen from the crontab.

Tried getting it to write to a log file?

* * * * * /programpath >>/home/nat/log.1 2>>/home/nat/log.2

You can see what error messages might be appearing then.

Could be path related.

nat,
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