Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


Shell Programming and Scripting

Cron job cannot run the command

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Cron job cannot run the command
# 1  
Old 09-22-2016
Cron job cannot run the command
Hi,

I created this cron job for asterisk to send sms daily to a number

Code:
#!/bin/sh
#custom mod - send sms once a day, at 07:00.
CRON_PATH="/etc/asterisk/gw/crontabs_root";
if ! grep 'gsm send sms' $CRON_PATH > /dev/null 2>&1 ;then
        echo "* 7 * * * asterisk -rx 'gsm send sms 1 7666 "TM ON"'" >> $CRON_PATH
        fi

but the result when i do crontab -l:

Code:
* 7 * * * asterisk -rx 'gsm send sms 1 7666 TM ON'

it should be:
Code:
* 7 * * * asterisk -rx 'gsm send sms 1 7666 "TM ON"'


So I only received sms: TM

Please help me to correct this, I should receive it as TM ON


Thanks Smilie
Last edited by Don Cragun; 09-22-2016 at 02:53 AM.. Reason: Add CODE and ICODE tags.
# 2  
Old 09-22-2016
Try:
Code:
echo "* 7 * * * asterisk -rx 'gsm send sms 1 7666 \"TM ON\"'" >> $CRON_PATH

This User Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
jazzyzha
# 3  
Old 09-22-2016
Hi Don Cragun!

Thank you so much for your answer. But how if i want 2 cron job? should it be like this:

Code:
#!/bin/sh
#custom mod - send sms once a day, at 07:00.
CRON_PATH="/etc/asterisk/gw/crontabs_root";
if ! grep 'gsm send sms' $CRON_PATH > /dev/null 2>&1 ;then
       echo "* 7 * * * asterisk -rx 'gsm send sms 1 7666 \"TM ON\"'" >> $CRON_PATH
       echo "* 7 * * * asterisk -rx 'gsm send sms 3 7666 \"TM ON\"'" >> $CRON_PATH
        fi


Thanks!
# 4  
Old 09-22-2016
It looks reasonable, what happens when you try it (after removing the line you already added)?
# 5  
Old 09-22-2016
It does what I want:

Code:
# crontab -l 
* 7 * * * asterisk -rx 'gsm send sms 1 7666 "TM ON"'
* 7 * * * asterisk -rx 'gsm send sms 3 7666 "TM ON"'

Thanks! Smilie
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cron Job to Run every 2 minutes

Hello Gurus, I want to schedule a cron job which will run every 2 minutes starts at 11:25 AM and 3:25 AM daily. Can you please suggest as how to schedule the job. Thanks- Pokhraj Das (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: pokhraj_d
2 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cron Job to Run for 30 minutes

Hello Gurus, I have a requirement to run a job from cron only for 30 minutes duration daily twice at 8.35 am and 20.35 pm Can you please suggest how to schedule the job? Thanks- Pokhraj (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: pokhraj_d
5 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cron job - Need to run Cron every quarter at particular time

Hi, 1) If some job supposed to run on 1st of every month at 7 AM In cron job when we have a blackout on the 1st ( i.e when 1st falls on a sunday ) how can we make the job run the next business day? 2) How can we run a job on 25th of every quarter 7 AM(jan,apr,jul,oct) And if 25th... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: System Admin 77
5 Replies

4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Use cron to run job every other week

my colleague was asking about this: is there a way to run a cron job biweekly, like a script five.sh to run every *OTHER* Friday within November its part about every other Friday we cant find any documentation. thx L (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: lydiaflamp
8 Replies

5. Solaris

How to run CRON JOB IN SOLARIS ZONE ??

Hi I am new to solaris zones........... I created a zone in solaris and i am trying to add a cron entry to that by crontab -e but when I enter that command it is just showing 253 number..... But when I enter crontab -l there are some entries my question is how to add cron entry?? when... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: vijaysachin
3 Replies

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Cron job to run a command from another dir?

I would like to setup a cron job to run a command from another directory. What is the best way to do this? The cron file is in a directory and the script I want it to run is in another directory. I tried doing this in the cron file: /location/of/command/run.sh But that did not work.... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sepia
2 Replies

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Need help with a script run by a cron job.

Hi, new to this forum and not sure if this is the right place to post. I'm new to cron jobs and scripts, and I need some help with a script to be used with a cron job. I already have a bot set up at a certain website address and need a script that the cron job will load every day that tells it to... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: klawless
1 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Does not run via cron job

I have a perl script, when I ran manually it works perfect. I check the permissions which are fine. How can I find out why it is not running? how can I setup a log to check. I am running it on solaris 9. It compares multiple files, SCP and then send out an e-mail. As I said when I ran it... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: amir07
2 Replies

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

cron job to run php file

Hello, I have searched and searched google to do this and i want my websever to be able to run a php file everyday automatically. How do I go about doing this? Php is installed as an apache module not CGI. Thank you! (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: christo16
3 Replies

10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Run cron job problem

I have the below crontab job that it will run at every 7:00am - 10:00am , it work fine , now if I want to skip to run the crontab job at a specific time , eg. I want the script not to run at next Monday 8:00am ( only skip this time , other time is normal ) , how can I make it ? is it possible ?... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ust
3 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question