MJ Ray <markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

bsamuels@datamansys.co.uk writes:

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I copied this from a posting I saw on a newsgroup and it works perfectly well when run by root from the command line. However if I set it up to be run as a root cron job it doesn't work as it should. [...] Can anyone offer advice as to why this should be happening?

Almost certainly a path problem, I would expect. While ifconfig may be in root's default path, cron tends to run with a different environment to minimise security problems. Try giving full path of things like ifconfig and see what happens. -- MJR

I've tried the full paths and it does work! Fiendish - these cron jobs! Many thanks Barry Samuels