Boy, it only took about 5 minutes for John Speno to point out that I had
too many fields on the line. I took out one of the asterisks and it worked
like a charm! *sigh*
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Don Newcomer Dickinson College
Associate Director, System and Network Services P.O. Box 1773
newcomer_at_dickinson.edu Carlisle, PA 17013
Phone: (717) 245-1699
FAX: (717) 245-1690
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Don Newcomer wrote:
> I'm trying to get a Perl script to run in cron without a lot of success.
> We're using Digital UNIX v4.0F and Perl 5.004-04. The script is written in
> Perl and I'm trying to get the output to go to a logfile. Here are some of
> the things I've tried to no avail:
>
> 0 1 * * * * /usr/local/bin/purge.pl > /usr/local/purge.log 2>&1
> 0 1 * * * * /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/purge.pl > /usr/local/purge.log 2>&1
> 0 1 * * * * /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/purge.pl >& /usr/local/purge.log
> 0 1 * * * * /bin/csh /usr/local/bin/purge.pl >& /usr/local/purge.log
>
> I know I'm missing something obvious (except for the fact that cron drives
> me crazy!) but I can't seem to get it to work. In fact, in addition to not
> creating the log, the script doesn't appear to run at all in the
> above-listed instances. It runs fine if I do it from an interactive shell.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Received on Wed Dec 13 2000 - 19:38:55 NZDT