user cronjobs are not performed

[Thilo Six]

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Simon Zilliken wrote the following on 17.04.2006 19:25:

>>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
> 
> 
> That helped me to solve it. There's no need to put absolute paths for 
> commands, but $USER could not be resolved. That made me wonder what sense it 
> makes to specify SHELL and PATH at the top of the crontab, so I left it out - 
> and it works as well. So my crontab looks like this now:
> 
> # scan /home for viruses daily
> 00 18 * * * nice -n 19 clamscan -rl /home/simon/Desktop/clamscan.daily /home 
> 
>>& /dev/null
> 
> 
> # eof
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Simon

glad i could help. ;)

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

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