"Tim Wilson" <twilson@stl-inc.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I have a simple script that runs the following command:
> w | grep load >/tmp/load.stat
> When executing as 'root' user it sends the output to the file
> correctly. If I have the script run from cron no output is generated.
> I am running this on an RS6000 using AIX v4.3. Would you tell me what
> I need to do to have this work correctly from cron?

Tim,

What are the permissions on /tmp/load.stat? Is the cron job running as
root? How do you know that the job is running? Did you change the crontab
file with crontab -e or just edit up the file? Directly editing the file
will not work. See man crontab.

Digitally yours,

Kevin Sproule