[WBEL-users] Using cron for auto tasks

[Sharon Kimble]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:28:26 -0600 (CST)
Jamey Fletcher <jamey@odin.library.beau.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> 
> > ========================
> > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> > # (/tmp/croninit installed on Mon Feb 23 12:02:14 2004)
> > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie
> > Exp$) MAILTO=""
> > LANG="en_UK"
> > 0 0 7 * * /usr/local/bin/sylpheed
> > ========================
> > and called 'boztu.cron'
> 
> > In the morning I read in my Cron-parts email ...
> > /etc/cron.daily/boztu.cron:/etc/cron.daily/boztu.cron: line 6: 0:
> > command not found
> 
> One thing I have learned about cron is that you can't assume *any* of
> the environment variables are as you expect.  Second quick thing - I
> often get that kind of confusing error response when I go to execute a
> script, and the magic #! line is incorrect - it *looks* like the
> command I'm typing at the command line isn't correct, when it's
> actually the interpreter I'm calling in it that's screwed.  I know at
> least perl isn't quite where most of the books showing examples of
> perl scripts expect it to be - that's where I first ran into the
> problem.
> 
> So, is sylpheed a script of some flavor?  If so, check at least the #!
> line, and maybe any others (if you can read the code well enough - I
> mean, if there were a brainf*ck script there, I'd never figure out
> that the script was bad...
> 
Thanks Jamey. Sylpheed is my email program, and that link is to its
startup in the usr/local/bin.

Sharon.