[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Very Strange Script



Its not that the crontab dont work. its doing half of the job but its not
executing scp while ssh itself work ok.

the strange thing is that it worked ok on  October  and stoped working on
November

"Peter L. Peres" wrote:

> 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

--
--------------------------
Canaan Surfing Ltd.
Internet Service Providers
Ben-Nes Michael - Manager
Tel: 972-6-6925757
Fax: 972-6-6925858
http://www.canaan.co.il
--------------------------