Re: cron jobs not running as root

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 elemint@theriver.com wrote:

> I have created a cron job and while logged in as root the scipt runs
> fine but if I configure crontab like contab -u root -e the job does not
> run.
>
> I do see the job start in /var/log/syslog
>
> The way that I know the job does not work sucessfully is becuase part of
> the job is to send out an email and that is not working unless running
> it at the command prompt as root.

Maybe the mail environment is different. Have a look in your mail logs.

Add some debugging to the cron job to report what parts it gets to.


Jeremy C. Reed

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