[H-GEN] crontab question

[Mal Beaton]

Anthony Irwin wrote:
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> 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.
> 

care of mark suter
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