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Operating Systems Solaris cron / crontab issues - solaris 10 Post 302365768 by Smiling Dragon on Wednesday 28th of October 2009 03:19:11 AM
Old 10-28-2009
Hmm, editing then saving should have activated to correctly... I'll read a little more then...

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Is there any error in your cron log file? Does it show it executing?
Generally a cron job problem is caused by the environment being wrong in the script - things like your path etc are not set by cron, so something that works from your commandline might not from cron.

Have you checked the user's email? Cron sends an email containing stdout and stderr if the script produces any output.
 

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