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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Continued Crontab Problem on 2.0.5
Date: 6 Jan 1996 18:33:07 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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dhawk@netcom.com (David H) writes:
> 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.)
You should not use relative path names. Try ${HOME}/foobar.
(I assume cron runs in the home directory of root, instead of cd'ing
into $HOME before.)
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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