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Re: Very Strange Script



On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Ben Nes Michael wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I made a script that should copy files from one computer to other with
> ssh every round hour (through crontab)
> 
> I wrote the script in October and it worked just fine.
> But when November came the script didnt want to run from the crontab
> though its work perfectly from the shell
> 
> Im amazed :-(

Coming from you, I ain't. Take a good look at the crontab file syntax as
used in crontab files, not as per the manual. The Linux crontab on
Slackware has a buggy parser. You may need to specify each month
explicitly in a list. 

Peter