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Aug 30, 2003, 2:10 AM

biketrials

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Aug 30, 2003, 2:10 AM

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build all with cron question

Hi all, I'm having trouble with crontab...

I've installed the following in crontab (it shows up with crontab -l )

20 * * * * /path/to/lsql/admin/nph-build.cgi --all > /path/to/lsql/admin/logs/build_links.log

I've got the paths correct (it runs if I put perl -I in front at the commandline). And if I understand right, it should run at the 20 minute point of every hour, every day, every day of the week, and every month... However, it doesn't. No output to log file, no change in static html files (even when changes have been made)... :-(

Have I done something totally wrong?

I don't really know where to go from here, and would appreciate any help!

Thanks!

Stephen
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Aug 30, 2003, 2:35 AM

Andy

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Aug 30, 2003, 2:35 AM

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Re: [biketrials] build all with cron question In reply to

Hi. If you could send me admin acess, i'll install my Cron_Manager plugin for you, so we can do a bit of debugging.

In SSH, when you try;

crontab -l

what do you see? Its most likely a problem with a newline being there/not being there, in the cron file... I had loads of problems with this, before I worked out the problem, and wrote my Cron_Manager plugin :)

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Aug 30, 2003, 10:33 PM

biketrials

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Aug 30, 2003, 10:33 PM

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Re: [Andy] build all with cron question In reply to

Thanks, Andy!!

You were spot on with the newline thing... I did crontab -e and just added a newline, exited, and the cron job ran just fine! I don't think any of the tutorials or things I read on cron mentioned anything about a newline... :-(

Cheers!

Stephen

Aug 31, 2003, 1:26 AM

Andy

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Aug 31, 2003, 1:26 AM

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Yeah, they didn't tell me either. I think Paul or Alex mentioned it to me once before. Spose its one of those things that has to be passed on from developer to developer Frown

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Andy (mod)
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