[plug] VNC Shell Script

[Brock Woolf]

On 07/11/2004, at 6:40 PM, James Devenish wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message <B8F4552D-30A8-11D9-8F16-000D936A747A at iinet.net.au>
> on Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 06:35:19PM +0800, Brock Woolf wrote:
>> I looked in /var/log/syslog and towards the very end I found:
>> Nov	7  18:28:00 203-59-15-249 CROND[1108]: (brock) CMD (brock
>> /home/brock/scripts/rfbserver.sh)
> ...
>> Still, the cronjob won't run the script
>
> By the looks of that logfile entry, the problem is to do with the 
> format
> of the crontab (remember my comment that it "looks a little unusual").
> As Cameron explained, the format that you used is correct for the
> hostwide /etc/crontab file but is not correct for "personal" crontabs.
> You have not told us how you're editing your crontab file. If you are
> using `crontab -e` from the command line, you are editing your personal
> crontab (i.e. /var/cron/tabs/brock) and you need to use this format:
>
> */2 * * * * /home/brock/scripts/rfbdrake.sh
>
> This contrasts with the following line which is only suitable for
> /etc/crontab:
>
> */2 * * * * brock /home/brock/scripts/rfbserver.sh

YAY!!!
James, Cameron, Brad, you guys are champs.

The problem as it seems was having my username in there.
Thanks fellas.

- Brock