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Not getting cron to work
I've tried to get a script (importing torrent files from rss) executed once an hour by simply placing it in cron.hourly but nothing whatsoever happens. The script executes well manually when I'm logge...
Well I'm at work and havent configed my firewall to let me in so I can't check it just yet but I can say that the script can be called from anywhere as doesnt use any relative paths.
The headers should be ok, otherwise I shouldnt be able to run it manually either should I?
I'll try to find the cron log (didnt know there was one tbh) and see if it says anything. Is cron run as root btw or another user? If another user it could be the case that it can't open the files it is trying to open...
Thanks for the help so far!
The headers should be ok, otherwise I shouldnt be able to run it manually either should I?
I'll try to find the cron log (didnt know there was one tbh) and see if it says anything. Is cron run as root btw or another user? If another user it could be the case that it can't open the files it is trying to open...
Thanks for the help so far!
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