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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: thrruss on October 29, 2000, 05:54:30 PM
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Hi guy!
There is something strange with my crontab and i can't solve it.
I made a bash script (with full path files) to reconnect my adsl and added this file to my crontab file:
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/reconnect.sh
when i launch this script it works but it seams not to be launched by cron!
my atd daemon is on and i have no more ideas!
for the moment i have to launch this script on my own! Quite strange for a linux server to pay someone to launch a script every day!
do you have any idea??
thank you guys!
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thrruss wrote:
> I made a bash script (with full path files) to
> reconnect my adsl
I'm interested to know why your adsl needs to be reconnected. Doesn't it reconnect automatically? It would be better to fix that problem than to add a crontab job.
Charlie
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The problem is that I have a whole script to launch when i connect.
Thus, it is absolutely needed to launch this script every 5 minutes.
In that script i have, for example, to update my dynamic domain name!
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thrruss wrote:
> The problem is that I have a whole script to launch when i
> connect. Thus, it is absolutely needed to launch this script
> every 5 minutes. In that script i have, for example, to update
> my dynamic domain name!
The e-smith server and gateway software includes support for updating dynamic domain name servers. What other script do you need to run and why?
Charlie
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Sorry but it's not the answer i'm waiting for!
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thrruss wrote:
> Sorry but it's not the answer i'm waiting for!
How about man 5 crontab? What does the error msg cron reports when trying to run your script? Are you trying to run the cronjob as a user? Have you set your shell in your crontab entry?
try setting your shell eg. SHELL=/bin/bash and have the error reports post to you so you can share the msg with us MAILTO=
e-smith supports what youve asked for, as Charlie has said, but
anyway try the above at least.
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Damien