Re: [Sheflug] Re: Cron Job

[Paul Branston <nospam [at] rannoch.demon.co.uk>]

cron has a very restricted PATH environment. Try a full path to 
isdnctrl.


Richard wrote:
> 
> Dear All
> 
> Ross Goodley wrote:
> >
> > man 5 crontab
> 
> Tried doing this one......
> 
> 18 12 * * * isdnctrl dial ippp0
> 18 12 * * * echo "dialling ippp0 from crontab"
> 
> that doesn't work at all.  According to man5 this is the correct
> syntax to use if I want to dialup my ISP.  /var/log/messages shows
> nothing for that time.  Box definitely didn't dial my ISP.
> 
> What next ?
> 
> --
> Richard
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