From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-03-22T05:04:52+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby and cron help

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Mark Probert wrote:

what happens if you replace

  timestamp.rb

and

  blah.rb

with their absolute paths?

you could try changing

> /usr/local/bin/ruby blah.rb > ~/tmp/blah.out

to

> /usr/local/bin/ruby blah.rb

and see what cron mails you.

-a

> 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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>
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