Hi,

I thought your script produces an error and you won't see that in the output file if you had an entry like

* * * * * script.sh > output.txt

The last thing I can imagine is that you have to use the full path of touch like:

#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/touch /home/dennis/delme.txt

To see where it is installed type

which touch

Basti

Just to be shure...

Did you try the touch-script with absolute path in crontab?
Perhaps ~/script.sh expands to /root/script.sh as cron is run as root (?)

If you tried an absolute path with the git-script and
just redirected stdout the file is blank because it just tells you that there is no repository on stderr and exits.

Basti

or you have to cd to the right directory first (in the script)?

Hi,

if I run a job in background here I still see the output in the terminal...
you can store the output in a file and check that file later like

./bigjob.sh > output.txt &

A running job can be stopped with CTRL+z. If you type

bg

fg

Have you tried screen already?
With this tool you can start the big job and even close the terminal (or close the connection if it is a remote host) and later reattach it.
This would work something like that

screen -d -m bigjob.sh

screen -d -r

Perhaps it helps...
Basti

Hi,

I guess you are reading the book about device drivers from O'Reilly.
As far as I remember snull is an example network driver that creates 2 interfaces. It works like loopback split in 2 devices.
Traffic send through one of the interfaces will be received at the other.

The book was written for kernel 2.4. I don't know if the code still works without modifications.

Hope it helps
Basti

I think you should use

export PATH="${PATH}:/opt/gnome/bin"

export PATH="/opt/gnome/bin"