Re: cron not running script?

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

At 23:57 1998-09-29 -0400, zappa inetnow net wrote:
>hi all,
>I have written a cron script to rebuild the glimpse index of the man pages
>on my computer that tkman creates. If I run this script as root it works
>fine, however, when I put the script in the directory /etc/cron.weekly the
>indexes don't get updated. The date on the index files doesn't change. So
>my guess is the script isn't even getting run, however, the
>makewhatis.cron script in the same directory gets run. I checked the path
>settings in /etc/crontab and they are ok. Any ideas? Here is what my
>script looks like:

Did you 'chmod' it to make it executable? You should also specify the path
to glimpseindex.


 Tony
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