Hi all,

I wrote a small shell (bash) script and it was executing well. I'm getting problem when I use this in crontab. My script is:

#!/usr/bin/bash

mkdir `date '+%m-%d-%y'`

cd `date '+%m-%d-%y'`

cvs co -r br_name module

cd dir1/dir2/dir3

bash build.sh


this is doing well when executed as a script but when I tried to execute this command through crontab I'm getting errors.

It is creating directory but not able to checkout from CVS. can anyone solve this?

And one thing I'm doing this on solaris10 where as the CVS repository is on Linux.

Thanks all......

First: Guys, post your errors here. We don't like to guess.

Second: For sure you get errors. Think about in which working directory cron will run your script

Third: if you're using build tools not available in standard path you should add an explizit $PATH there

Im getting error something like this

cvs checkout: No CVSROOT specified! Please use the `-d' option
cvs [checkout aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable.

i'm running this crontab in my home directory.....




and we are not using any build tools......we are using 'make' command to do builds....

well... what do you think 'cvs' is?
Maybe this FAQ will help!

version management tool......

I changed the script like this

#!/usr/bin/bash

mkdir `date '+%m-%d-%y'`

cd `date '+%m-%d-%y'`

source .profile

export CVSROOT=server:sgullapalli@linux1:/polaris/local/cvsroot

/opt/sfw/bin/cvs co -r br_name module

cd dir1/dir2/dir3

bash build.sh


but now i'm getting errors like:

sh: source: not found
sh: CVSROOT=server:sgullapalli@linux1:/polaris/local/cvsroot: is not an identifier