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mesc mescie at home.com
Sun Jul 16 05:13:11 UTC 2000


My logcheck.sh is in /usr/local/etc also.Could it have something to do with
root being in this line >* * * * * root run-parts /usr/local/etc/logcheck.sh
when logcheck.sh is owned by user mesc?

Vincent wrote:

> mesc wrote:
> >
> > Ok I didn't know postfix was an mta.I must be on the right track because
> > my cron e-mailed me back on my logcheck,but it's not quiet right yet.This
> > is a line from my crontab file pertaining to my logcheck>1 * * * * root
> > run-parts /usr/local/etc/logcheck.sh..I just have it set to run every
> > minute untill I get it to work  right,and  this is what I just got back
> > from it in my e-mail>Not a directory:
> > /usr/local/etc/logcheck.sh........any ideas what may be wrong?
> >
> >             Thanks again,Gary Martin.
>
> "1 * * * *" in your crontab will only run on the first minute of every
> hour, not every minute.  If you want it to run every minute, change your
> "1" to "*".
>
> It sounds like your problem is logcheck.sh is located somewhere else on
> your system.  /usr/local/etc/ was the default location when I installed
> Portsentry.  You just need to locate yours and change the path in your
> cron job.
>
> try this:
>
> locate logcheck.sh
>
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