crontab for ordinary users
Shiping Zhang
ping at cubmol.bio.columbia.edu
Tue Oct 16 04:19:18 AEST 1990
In order to test if crontab works for, I prepared the follow
script file called test which is chmoded excusable
#!/usr/bin/csh
# the script file
echo test crontab
and created the crontab file with a single line in the format:
min h * * * /wholepath/test
The script is invoked at specified time but aborted at very begining.
I got the following message from the system:
Subject: Output from "cron" command
Status: R
Your "cron" job
/wholepath/test
produced the following output:
TERM: Undefined variable.
I tried the following:
min h * * * export TERM; /wholepath/test
min h * * * set TERM; export TERM; /wholepath/test
min h * * * set TERM termname; export TERM; /wholepath/test
etc...
But non of them worked.
However, if it was invoked in the root crontab, it worked fine.
Can anyone point out to me what is the problem?
Thanks.
-ping
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