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Old 05-29-2001
Having Problem with crontab command
Hi all ,
When i am tryting to execute crontab from home directory for a shell script which is located in some directory it is giving a error message

The crontab file is
0 9-17 * * 1-5 /mydir/myshell

The following output is given
Your "cron" job

/mydir/myshell

produced the following output:

sh: /mydir/shell: does not exist

URGENTLY REQUIRE HELP
THANKS IN ADVANCE

Regrads
Arunava
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Old 05-29-2001
Smilie Hi Arunava

I have my crontab like this

17 09 * * 1-5 /mydir/myshell.sh

First the minutes then the hours.This how it works on my true64unix.

But don't forget the full path..

Peterh
 
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