user cronjobs are not performed

[Thilo Six]

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Simon Zilliken schrieb am 15.04.2006 10:15:

> I don't understand ... I'm talking about a user crontab, so there's no need 
> (and no way) to give a user. "nice" is part of the command.
> 
> Bye, Simon

You are right. But there is a possibilty to specify a different user.

man crontab
If the -u option is given, it specifies the  name  of  the  user  whose
crontab  is  to be tweaked.  If this option is not given, crontab
examines "your" crontab, i.e., the crontab of the person executing the
command.

Hmm

You said if you execute the command from cli it works as expected.
Maybe try to put the full absoulte path in crontab.

nice clamscan -rl /home/$USER/Desktop/clamscan.daily
                        ^^^^^

/usr/bin/nice /usr/bin/clamscan -rl /home/Simon/Desktop/clamscan.daily
               ^^^^^                      ^^^^
               ||||| i am not sure about this. i do not have clamscan

An other try would be to put the whole command line in a shell script
and let crontab execute this.


bye Thilo
- --
i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE
- - some friend of mine

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