Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Kris Kerwin <kkerwin@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] cron help
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:24:35
Message-Id: 200601032004.56046.kkerwin@insightbb.com
1 Hi all,
2
3 Let's play everyone's favorite game, "What did Kris do wrong"? ;-)
4
5 I've been working on a set of scripts to utilize Mark Lyon's gml
6 (Google Mail Loader), a tool to upload email to GMail for easy
7 storage and searching.
8
9 So far, the scripts work when called explicitly from the command line,
10 but will not work when called from a cron job.
11
12 Here's what I entered in my crontab:
13
14 --- <file: /etc/crontab> ---
15 # Sync GMail
16 */5 * * * * kris bash /home/kris/bin/gmail_export/gmail_export.sh
17 ---------------------------------
18
19 Thanks in advance!
20
21 Kris Kerwin
22 kkerwin@×××××××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] cron help John Jolet <john@×××××.net>