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# 1  
Old 01-30-2010
Mac OSX Cron Script Execution
Hello,

On Mac OSX, I was wondering about my Cron Script:
Code:
HELL=/bin/tcsh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
HOME=/var/log
MAILTO=jwillis
25      1       *       *       *       root    /Users/jwillis/Fbcmd\Scripts/DailyBirthday.scr

my returned message is:
Code:
Subject: Cron <jwillis@Macintosh-66> root  /Users/jwillis/Fbcmd\ Scripts/DailyBirthday.scr
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/tcsh>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/Users/jwillis>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=jwillis>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=jwillis>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=jwillis>
Message-Id: <20100123072500.C587886CC46@Macintosh-66.local>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:25:00 -0600 (CST)

root: Command not found.

I've also tried my user name instead of root.

Additionally, this script wouldn't run if I were not logged in at 1:25 AM. Would it run the next login or is there a way to set that?


Thanks,
J
# 2  
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.
# 3  
Old 01-31-2010
thats odd.

For the first try I removed root and received:
Code:
From: jwillis@macintosh-66.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu (Cron Daemon)
To: jwillis@macintosh-66.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Cron <jordanwillis@macintosh-66> /Users/jwillis/Fbcmd\ Scripts/DailyBirthday.scr
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/tcsh>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/Users/jwillis>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=jwillis>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=jwillis>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=jwillis>
Message-Id: <20100131040701.725B78C4BFD@macintosh-66.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:07:01 -0600 (CST)

/Users/jwillis/Fbcmd Scripts/DailyBirthday.scr: line 1: fbcmd: command not found

as expected...

for the sudo crontab -e it just returned the same thing a jwillis user did in "root not found"
# 4  
Old 01-31-2010
Do not use spaces in filenames or directory names in Unix it only causes trouble as you have now seen!

Change:
Code:
/Users/jwillis/Fbcmd\ Scripts/DailyBirthday.scr\ Scripts/DailyBirthday.scr

with:
Code:
"/Users/jwillis/Fbcmd\ Scripts/DailyBirthday.scr Scripts/DailyBirthday.scr"

 
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