Maby a stupid question, but anyways: - did u restart the cron deamon after you made changes to the crontab? - if you look in /var/log/cron, do you evern see that cron is trying run the script? - check roots email to see if cron is reporting any errors regarding this job Anze -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Muhammad Rizwan Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 8:14 AM To: Vipul Ramani; General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: crontab YES On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 23:35, Vipul Ramani wrote: > Hi, > did u make executable to your shell script. ??? > Regards, > > On 5/23/05, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez <manuel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > El Lunes 23 Mayo 2005 10:00, Muhammad Rizwan escribió: > > > I have my script that is running fine when i run it as: /root/shelltest. > > > But when i try to run it from crontab its not working at all. My entry > > > in crontab is: 2 * * * * /root/shelltest. > > > Any idea? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Try with this line: > > 2 * * * * root /root/shelltest > > > > > > -- > > Manuel Arostegui Ramirez #Linux Registered User 295750 > > Socio de Hispalinux 1813 > > Red Hat Linux 9, Kernel 2.6.2 ReiserFS > > Firma cifrada > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE+3O1MqfmPcHTj+twRAm > > yDAJ9P6ezepIMg06vOet/YPKxVoB+Z/ACfWVhh > > ---END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > -- > Vipul Ramani > linux2000in@xxxxxxxxx > linux2000in@xxxxxxxxx > ~~~~~We Know HOW NetWorkS ~~~~~ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list