When things doesn't run into crontab???

nymus7 · #1 (**permalink**) 04-24-2006

Could someone explain my problem?

I've the following script...

Code:

#! /bin/ksh
...
vmquery -m $MediaID | awk '
BEGIN {FS=": "
getline expdate <"ExpDate.txt"
}
 $1 ~ /media ID/ {MediaNumber = $NF}
...
 $1 ~ /number of mounts/ {
 "date +%Y"|getline YearToday
 Year4 = YearToday - 4 
 if ($NF > 2000)
 {
   if (expdate ~ "[0-9]\{2\}\/[0-9]\{2\}\/[0-9]\{4\}")
   {
     printf("\t %s \n\n","=case 1==================")                                   >>"/home/op/report.txt"
     printf("%-20s\t %s\t %s\n","Media Number",":",MediaNumber)                         >>"/home/op/report.txt"
...

When I start this program in shell, it is running whitout problem and I've got the result in the file /home/op/report.txt.
But when I start this program via crontab, it is running whitout problem BUT it doesn't create the /home/op/report.txt

What's the problem? what I should doing?
Best regards, nm

RTM · #2 (**permalink**) 04-24-2006

Post how you run it from command line and how it is set up in crontab (as the portions of the script you posted don't show that output is being re-directed to the file mentioned).

nymus7 · #3 (**permalink**) 04-24-2006

Hi

1.By command line :

Code:

unix:/home/op> nbu_report.sh

2.By crontab :

Code:

00 06 * * * /home/op/nbu_report.sh

Thats' it!
-nymus

RTM · #4 (**permalink**) 04-24-2006

Okay, I scrolled all the way to the right and saw your >> "/home/op/report.txt"
(Sorry about that)

Does your program put in the file ( if there is nothing to report ) that there was no records/info to report? Example - if I am running something for all my servers and there are no errors on any server, I put that there were no errors today as one of my last steps (by checking the file size of /home/op/report.txt - if it's zero at the end of my script, then there were no errors (or my script is screwed up)).

nymus7 · #5 (**permalink**) 04-24-2006

Hi

Yeah, I understand what's you means about perhaps "is nothing to report" !
But when I've started by command line the was a report and with the crontab the wasn't a report.
So, I check-up my script again and I founded the error : I was used the command vmquery but the PATH from cron doesn't understand that, so I've putting the PATH and now it's running....
-nymus

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