Goddamn cron!

Question

I wrote a little script that reads the NForce RSS feed and notifies me with a little dialog box when they include the string "GTA" (cos I just can't wait).
On its own the script works perfectly fine and I've created a symlink under /usr/bin so that `search-nforce` runs my script.
However, I just can't get it to run as a cronjob.
[omri@Dean ~]$ crontab -l
*/5 * * * * "search-nforce nforce"
The additional parameter I pass to my script tells it to look for "nforce", instead of the default "GTA" inside the RSS feed, so that it's bound to succeed. I've also set it to run every 5 minutes for now (or so I've tried) so I can see if it works without waiting too long.
It just doesn't seem to do anything.
Please help!

Answer 1

FUBAR wrote:
Did you try with
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/search-nforce nforce
? I noticed cron doesn't like relative filenames. If your script contains commands, make sure the full path is included aswell.
Still isn't working.
Edit: Apparently I have a syntax error;
[omri@Dean ~]$ crontab -l
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/search-nforce nforce >>/home/omri/cron/log 2>&1
[omri@Dean ~]$ cat /home/omri/cron/log
Syntax error
I'm completely lost here, what the hell am I doing wrong?