can't run a cron job

[jcor]

Hi, I'm trying to run my first cron job, probably it's missing something.

I created a perl script just to test, it's called "teste"
[code=perl]
!/usr/bin/perl
open(DATA,">>/home/joao/files/output");
@Now = localtime(time) ;
print DATA "@Now\n";
exit ;
[/code]

I created the file "teste.cron " with the cron job. it's only a line with:
* * * * * /home/joao/files/teste

I uploaded the cron job with "crontab teste.cron"

Shouldn't this be writing the date and time every minute in the file "output"?

When I run my script manually it writes correctly in the file "output";
If I type "crontab -l" I can see my cron job loaded;

can somebody give me an hand?

thanks,

João

[eWish]

I am not sure if you got this issue resolved. If not the there is an article that may help you.

[jcor]

thanks for your help. I didn´t solve this problem at the time but get my goal monitoring a folder pernmanently and triggering when occured changes instead of running the code in a cron job. Anyway i'll read the article for further using.


thanks,

João

[numberwhun]

Hi, I'm trying to run my first cron job, probably it's missing something.

I created a perl script just to test, it's called "teste"
[code=perl]
!/usr/bin/perl
open(DATA,">>/home/joao/files/output");
@Now = localtime(time) ;
print DATA "@Now\n";
exit ;
[/code]

I created the file "teste.cron " with the cron job. it's only a line with:
* * * * * /home/joao/files/teste

I uploaded the cron job with "crontab teste.cron"

Shouldn't this be writing the date and time every minute in the file "output"?

When I run my script manually it writes correctly in the file "output";
If I type "crontab -l" I can see my cron job loaded;

can somebody give me an hand?

thanks,

João

Personally, I would want to see what cron is saying since it runs silently. So, that said, I would change the entry to be:

* * * * * /home/joao/files/teste > /home/joao/files/cronjob.log

and see if the log file shows anything happening.

The entry looks right and the code, aside from having asthetic issues (ie: no "use warnings" or "use strict") seems to look like it would work. Try that and see what is output to the log file.

Regards,

Jeff

[pankajit09]

I want a cron software for Windows.

[arne]

I want a cron software for Windows.

Did you try to Google for "cron windows"? There seem to be several projects that provide cron functionality on windows.

HTH,
arne