Hi,

I'm having a bit of trouble with a piece of Java code. The code works like I want it to, and if I run it from the command line, the Java logging works perfectly. When I submit the code as a cron job however, the log files are not created, even though the code again does what it's supposed to. I don't see anything on the man page for crontab, and the cron man page is full of warnings about how much info might be logged. [;0)

Do I need special permissions from my SysAdmin to get the logs to work?

Thanks,
-- piche

How are you creating these logfiles? Be careful to specify executables with absolute paths, sometimes your cron jobs don't have the same search paths you do.

Well that was it. I already had a "home" envirnoment variable defined it in my script, so I added it to the java command line and used System.getProperties to read it and prepend it to the filename.

Works fine! Lasts a long time! Problem solved.

Thanks,
-- piche