From: Mark Probert Date: 2003-03-22T05:45:23+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby and cron help Joel VanderWerf did say ... > > Does blah run if you comment out the timestamp line? > No, unfortunately. The idea of the timestamp line was to see if it was a problem running ruby, or cron, or the driver. They all seem to be ok. The output of /var/cron/log is > CMD: /opt/home/mark/bin/blah > mark 761 c Fri Mar 21 15:00:00 2003 < mark 761 c Fri Mar 21 15:00:00 2003 rc=1 The script will runtime is around 10 mins (there are 2 x 5 minute intentional sleeps). Is there anyway of working out what cron is doing or capturing the output? I have tried 0,15,30,45 * * * * /opt/home/mark/bin/vtx1 > ~/tmp/cron.out 2>&1 though the cron.out file is empty ... Thanks for your help, -- -mark. ---------------------------------------------------- Mark Probert probertm@NOSPAM_nortelnetworks.com Nortel Networks ph. (613) 768-1082 ---------------------------------------------------- All opinions expressed are my own and do not reflect in any way those of Nortel Networks.