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PatrikL
Oct 12, 2011Aspirant
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...
tiranor
Jul 06, 2013Aspirant
Damn, i just solved my problem, i just didn't realise that cron doesn't know ANY path...
I just had to point directly to all the functions i'm using :
/usr/local/bin/curl instead of curl
when necessary : /usr/bin/nohup instead of nohup
/usr/bin/java instead of java
Just did that, it now works.
I just had to point directly to all the functions i'm using :
/usr/local/bin/curl instead of curl
when necessary : /usr/bin/nohup instead of nohup
/usr/bin/java instead of java
Just did that, it now works.
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