[X-Unix] Cron problem - Again

[Eric F Crist]

Have you checked your log files?



On Jun 23, 2005, at 1:00 PM, Marley Graham wrote:

> I have my screencapture program running under cron on my machine.  
> So I figured I would do the same on some client machines for which  
> I have set up an admin account. But it doesn't work on the client  
> machines. Here is what I have:
>
> On my machine:
> $ crontab -l
> 0,30 7-16 * * 1-6 /users/marleygraham/screenpict
>
> Where screenpict is the script:
> #!/bin/bash
> /usr/sbin/screencapture mg$(/users/marleygraham/exacttime)
> exit
>
> And exacttime is the script:
> #!/bin/bash
> /bin/date +%r > tempdate
> awk '{print $1}' tempdate
> rm tempdate
> exit
>
> On the client machine, I have set up an admin user isadmin. I  
> logged onto the client over ssh and set up the cron job using  
> crontab -e. Then I copied the scripts to the  client using ARD  
> copy, changed the owner to isadmin, and edited to change the  
> username. So on the client I have:
>
> n$ crontab -l
> 0,30 7-16 * * 1-6 /screenpicsa
>
> Where screenpicsa is:
> #!/bin/bash
> /usr/sbin/screencapture /isscreen$(/exacttime)
> exit
>
> And exacttime is:
> #!/bin/bash
> /bin/date +%r > tempdate
> awk '{print $1}' tempdate
> rm tempdate
> exit
>
> The files look like:
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 isadmin  isadmin       82 22 Jun 16:40 exacttime
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 isadmin  isadmin       67 23 Jun 08:21 screenpicsa
>
> I am not getting any files generated by cron. Any ideas why?
>
> Marley Graham
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