[H-GEN] crontab question

[Robert Stanford]

Benjamin Carlyle wrote:
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>>Anthony Irwin wrote:
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>>>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

Is the last line in your crontab empty?

Robbie