On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 22:09 +0100, Giuseppe Greco wrote: > Hi all, > > I've written the following script (named checkconn) > to be executed every 5 minutes by crond: > > > #! /bin/sh > > ping -c 1 -W 3 www.dyndns.org > /dev/null > > if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then > `/sbin/adsl-stop` > `/sbin/adsl-start` > fi > > ... and here is the result of crontab -l: > > 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /root/cron/checkconn > 5,15,25,35,45,55 * * * * /root/cron/checkconn > > > Well, if I execute checkconn from the command line, > it works as expected, while when checkconn is invoked > by crond, it doesn't work... > > Any idea? > j3d. The first line of the script looks like there is an error. It should be: #!/bin/sh and not #! /bin/sh Also, you can make your crontab entry look like this: */5 * * * * /root/cron/checkconn This will run the script every 5 minutes. Is /root/cron/checkconn executable? Thomas
