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# 15  
Old 05-28-2012
Also look in unix mail for the user who owns the crontab. This is where any fundamental error messages (like permissions on the script file) will be found.
# 16  
Old 05-29-2012
Hello Umar
I really admire your enthusiasm for shell scripting and thanks for your contribution towards this forum. you can solve this by putting following in crontab:
Code:
bash -l script

This User Gave Thanks to kashif_islam For This Post:
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# 17  
Old 05-29-2012
Thank you kashif, executing script with "bash -l" in crontab solved my problem. =)

However can somebody please explain logic behind this?
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