From: Venkatakrishnan Ganesh <nested.bit@...>
Date: 2012-01-05T22:19:35+09:00
Subject: Re: crontab and ruby script

Looks ok. I don't think you need execute permission either, just read 
permission would do, because you're passing the file to the interpreter.

Verify that:
     * Interpreter path is correct
     * Program does not have errors and you are able to run it yourself
     * It has correct permissions for accessing files etc as the user 
you've setup the cron for
     * If you're just printing stuff remember it doesn't have $stdout or 
$stderr to write to, redirect those to some log file

Hope this helps


On 05/01/12 4:00 PM, CC Chen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I used crontab command such as
> "*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/ruby /local/myuser/rubyscript/script1.rb"
>
> But it can't execute script1.rb, I let it print some message every 5
> min.
>
> I also changed script1.rb to chmod 755.
>
>
> Does the crontab command is right?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>