From: Mark Probert <probertm@..._acm.org>
Date: 2003-03-22T04:44:40+09:00
Subject: ruby and cron help

Hi, rubyists.

I think this is more a cron rather than a ruby problem.
However, I am stumped.

I am running ruby 1.6.8 under Solaris 6.

wcary3zg:~/src/ruby/utils% crontab -l                                     
0,15,30,45 * * * * /opt/home/mark/bin/blah

wcary3zg:~/src/ruby/utils% cat ~/bin/blah
#! /usr/local/bin/zsh
cd ~/src/ruby/utils
/usr/local/bin/ruby timestamp.rb > ~/tmp/timestamp.out
/usr/local/bin/ruby blah.rb > ~/tmp/blah.out

timestamp.rb contains "puts Time.now" just to show that
ruby is working ok.  blah.rb is the application I am 
really interested in.  Running "blah" from the command
line works fine.  It fails to work from cron, though
the command is executed (from /var/cron/log) and the
timestamp.out file is updated.

Any ideas?

-- 
-mark.

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