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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Mac OSX Cron Script Execution Post 302391161 by TonyFullerMalv on Saturday 30th of January 2010 06:13:51 PM
Old 01-30-2010
I wonder if your cron script did not paste correctly?

Unless MACOS has a very different cron(8) to other Unixes then you switch to the root user and edit the crontab(5) if you root to run the crontab(1). AS root you can edit other users crontabs.

To edit rot crontab as yourself you can do:
Code:
$ sudo crontab -e

The crontab is expected to specify when to run something and then what to run with any parameters, so it is treating "root" as what to run and then your script as the parameter to it, drop the root word and see how you get on.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

svscanboot

svscanboot(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     svscanboot(8)

NAME

       svscanboot - starts svscan(8) in the /service directory, with output and error messages logged through readproctitle(8).

       svscanboot is available in daemontools 0.75 and above.

SYNOPSIS

       svscanboot

DESCRIPTION

       svscanboot runs the pipeline

       svscan /service 2>&1 | readproctitle service errors: .....

       with 400 dots. The last 400 bytes of error messages from svscan(8) will be visible to ps(1) through readproctitle(8).

       svscanboot sets $PATH to

	/command:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:
	/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin

       (all in one line, no space)

       and clears all other environment variables. Program writers are encouraged to use globally allocated names in /command.

SEE ALSO

       supervise(8),  svc(8),  svok(8),  svstat(8),  svscan(8),  readproctitle(8), fghack(8), pgrphack(8), multilog(8), tai64n(8), tai64nlocal(8),
       setuidgid(8), envuidgid(8), envdir(8), softlimit(8), setlock(8), ps(1)

	http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
	http://cr.yp.to/slashcommand.html

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