[Mailman-Users] Cron setup

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Mon Apr 3 19:28:39 CEST 2006


Jewel wrote:

>I am not able to figure out why my script is not running which I have 
>setup with cron.  I created a script, which I made executable and placed 
>in the /etc/cron.daily directory.  Cron is running but my script never 
>executes.  Can someone help me figure out why?


Do the other scripts in /etc/cron.daily run?

This is not the normal way to run a script with cron. The normal way is
to put an entry in the crontab of the user that specifies what to run
and when. See 'man crontab' and 'man 5 crontab'.

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