[aklug] Re: cron/crontab question

And redirection of output can get VERY confusing, lol

On Sep 24, 2009, at 8:26 AM, barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net> wrote:

> Quoting James Zuelow <e5z8652@zuelow.net>:
>> No. If you have it in someone's crontab, their crontab will run it.
>>
>> If you put it into cron.daily, it will run when all of the other
>> daily tasks
>> run. (06:25 by default -- you can change that in /etc/crontab.)
>
> Maybe I'm not understanding this properly, but if it's the actual
> script that is being run....it can be anywhere. There are a few rules
> though:
>
> - you have to issue the entire path to it: /usr/local/myscript.sh
> - the scripts environment will be mostly stripped, see man pages or
> google
>
>
> I think there may be a few other minor things I take for granted...but
> those are the two that byte me the most. :)
>
> Mike B.
>
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Received on Thu Sep 24 10:50:43 2009