[vox-tech] cron and user environment

Jay Strauss vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 2 Sep 2003 08:46:07 -0500


> Are you getting an empty env.out, or no env.out at all?
No env.out produced

> Next, check the cron syslog (/var/log/cron/* on my system). It should log
> the execution of the job and the job's exit code.

I'm using debian but don't have a syslog in /var/log/cron

/# find / -name cron -print
/usr/sbin/cron
/usr/share/doc/cron
/usr/doc/cron
/etc/init.d/cron
/etc/pam.d/cron
/var/spool/cron

> Third, see if there's anything in your .bash_profile (or something that
> .bash_profile executes, such as .bashrc) which calls exit.

Nothing calling exit