Cron Scheduling Problem

Rails
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Hello,

The following cron job is failing to run:

00 16 * * * root ruby /home/nathan/rails/notifications/script/runner -e
production Notifier.deliver_summary

My understanding from the Rails Wiki is that this should do it.

Can anyone shed some light on what I may have setup wrong?

Thanks!

Nathan M.

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The following cron job is failing to run:

00 16 * * * root ruby /home/nathan/rails/notifications/script/runner -e
production Notifier.deliver_summary

My understanding from the Rails Wiki is that this should do it.

Can anyone shed some light on what I may have setup wrong?

Is ruby in the PATH for cron?

-philip

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Nathan M. wrote:

The following cron job is failing to run:

Failing to run as in no output, no mail, no anything?

Is cron running on your system?

Cron sends mail to the user when there is any output. Your first goal
should be to make sure that you see the output, then you will know why
it is failing.

00 16 * * * root ruby /home/nathan/rails/notifications/script/runner ?e
production Notifier.deliver_summary

root isn’t a command on any *nix I know, so unless that is a typo, that
is one problem with this line.

I’d also be deeply suspicious of the bare ruby without a path. Doesn’t
script/runner have a correct path to ruby in the #! line?

–

Ray

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00 16 * * * root ruby /home/nathan/rails/notifications/script/runner â??e
production Notifier.deliver_summary

root isn’t a command on any *nix I know, so unless that is a typo, that is
one problem with this line.

If it’s /etc/crontab (the system crontab) there is a field for the user
to
run the command as…

Of course if the above is in the user’s personal crontab entry then
that’s
why it’s failing…