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Hi there. Ok, no emails in to "John" - I changed everything here, so no error email, but the script doesn't appear to be being run. Any ideas at all?

Yep, cron seems to be running then (thanks for this): root 49 0.0 0.1 27512 452 ?? Ss Mon07AM 0:00.74 cron which brings me back to my original question then :( If cron is still running why has it stopped running my backup shell script? In one of the previous emails...

Hi. Could someone give me some help to test if cron is even working now? I've been doing some reading today that with Tiger cron doesn't work any more and that launchd replaces it - can someone give me some advice to see if cron itself is still running? Then I can take another approach if it...

sorry, not following you - can you explain. Bit of a newby with the command-line side

Hi there. I got a small basic cron to run just writing out to a file, so cron is obviously working but not with my script for some reason (which is weird). Here is the cron entry (this is being run from my account, not via sudo su or anything like that: 58 * * * *...

hi there. Yep, i upgraded to Tiger. That might be it!! I'll check it out and see if I can fix it :) thanks for the suggestion Ade

hi there I have a shell script which doesn't run from cron any more for some reason and I'm too stupid to figure out why :) basically this shell script does a backup of some files and uploads them to my server via rsync. The script works ok if I run it from the terminal, but it doesn't work...