[H-GEN] crontab question

[Anthony Irwin]

Hi guys,

I have set up a simple script to check if the Internet is running and 
connect to the Internet if it is not. The problem is if I run the script 
from a cron job it doesn't work, running it from the shell however works 
as I would expect

Below is the line in the root crontab
0,30 * * * * /root/scripts/checkpppstatus.sh

Below is the script
#!/bin/bash
/sbin/ifconfig|/bin/grep ppp0 || /usr/bin/pon

The computer is running on a Debian Woody system. Any suggestions would 
be greatly appreciated.

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Kind Regards,
Anthony Irwin

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