Cron is driving me crazy!

[StickyBit]

I'm trying to cron a perl script on my solaris 8 server and I'm having problems?

Question 1.
should I cron the script as root or a different user?

Question 2.
I created a different user and submitted the following cron job. crontab mycronfile

contents of mycronfile: 2 0 * * * /usr/local/dhcp/dhcp.pl &

I received the following email from cron as root:

Your "cron" job on sticky.internal.com
/usr/local/dhcp/dhcp.pl &

produced the following output:

sh: /usr/local/dhcp/dhcp.pl: cannot execute.

From the amount of e-mail’s received, I think the cron syntax is wrong among other things; I need the script to run every 2 min. What am I doing wrong?

StickyBit.

 

[630111]

If you tried to execute /usr/local/dhcp/dhcp.pl on the command line you would still get an error. I think what you're looking for is:

2 0 * * * /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/dhcp/dhcp.pl

/usr/bin/perl may not be the path to your perl executable, adjust accordingly (check with "which perl&quot.
I don't believe the & is necessary at the end because it is a cron job.

Let us know how it goes!
630111

 

[Guest_imported]

Did you check the permissions of the /usr/local/dhcp/dhcp.pl file?

 

[StickyBit]

I have found the problem. It was with the permissions on the script; only root could execute. However, what would the syntax be to cron the script exery 2 min. Still trying to figure this one out.

Thanks for all your help,


StickyBit.

 

[bluedevils]

you would have to put in an entry for each minute that you want it to run. 2,4,6,8,10,12.........etc

 

[StickyBit]

Thanks folks!

StickyBit.