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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!sbctri.tri.sbc.com!newspump.wustl.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!dhawk From: dhawk@netcom.com (David H) Subject: Continued Crontab Problem on 2.0.5 Message-ID: <dhawkDKM3qJ.IHp@netcom.com> Organization: Decline to State Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 15:44:42 GMT Lines: 23 Sender: dhawk@netcom13.netcom.com OK, I'm still trying to figure out crontab. At least I no longer have /etc/crontab and /var/cron/tabs/root ;-) But I do have a /var/cron/tabs/stats for user 'stats' with a home directory of '/yapp/info/stats' and the /var/cron/tabs/stats has USER=stats HOME=/yapp/info/stats LOGNAME=stats and it runs a program that writes a configuration file in its home directory. The problem is that it keeps trying to write to /root instead of /yapp/info/stats even with USER, HOME, and LOGNAME set. Why would the stats crontab job think /root is its home directory? (The stats crontab file was installed with crontab -u stats [filename] by root.) later, david -- David Hawkins dhawk@netcom.com "There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them." -- Heisenberg