Help needed on cron job

sanei05 · #1 (**permalink**) 06-18-2008

Hi Yogesh,

I have a script where i have set up a cron job. The script is running manually. The cron job is running successfully. The script is written so that whenever the database link is down, we need to get an alert mail. We are getting the mail when we run the script manually but not when executed through cronjob. Please reply me to sanei05@gmail.com

sanei05 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-18-2008

can u pls help me out what could be the problem.

bankai · #3 (**permalink**) 06-18-2008

cron jobs run in a limited environment where the PATH is very limited - this would be the first thing to look at if your script works fine manually but not via a cron job

nua7 · #4 (**permalink**) 06-18-2008

Check if the script is getting executed at the first place.It may be a the case, that the script is not running at all..

Easiest way to do this would be, to built certain empty files in the script and check if the files are created.

Neo · #5 (**permalink**) 06-18-2008

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