cron recipe error

[Derek Broughton]

Alan McKinnon wrote:

> Your crontab line looks ok. This is a common problem. Usual solutions:
> 
> 1. check executable permissions on script.rb
> 2. the way you have it, the first line of the script must be:
> #! /bin/bash
> 3. If all else fails, try running the script as:
> bash /home/dawson/script.rb > ...

If it was a permissions problem, or didn't have the #! line, shouldn't he
still get an email from Cron?  Oh, of course, not if there's no MTA - which
is not included on a default install, anymore.  Check also if package
"mailx" is installed.
-- 
derek