Hello out there, I got this script that runs partly fine by my crontab. Problem is it gets to the sleep 300(which should be 5 minutes right?) part and never runs the rest of the scripts past that. All individual scripts run just fine. My var/mail file only shows it up to the " echo "Loader Stop complete." part and nothing after that.
Do I need to break this out to a stop and then start script called seperately by the crontab or am I doing something wrong in this script here?

#!/usr/bin/bash
. /export/home/ip/.profile
  
 stop
echo "Webapp Stop complete."
. $HOME/bin/setEnvironmentVars.sh
$BIN_DIR/stopworkers.sh
echo "Workers Stop complete."
 
. $HOME/bin/setEnvironmentVars.sh
thisbranch=`$PRIVATE_DIR\/getBranchCode.sh`
DATA_DIR=/prod/app/$LOGNAME/data/
 
pid=`$PRIVATE_DIR/\checkLoaders.sh`
if [ "$pid" = '' ] ; then
        echo "No IP Loader is running."
    exit 0
fi 
   echo " Killing process " $pid
   echo "  Aborting IP Loader..."
     kill -9 $pid 
   sleep 3
  exit 1;
      
 echo "Loader Stop complete."
sleep 300  
 
echo "Re-Starting Workers and loader and webApp.. "
start
 
 
$BIN_DIR/startworkers.sh

$IPWORKER_HOME/bin/startLoader.sh

Maybe it can't find sleep in its path, that's the kind of error you often get in cron, try /usr/bin/sleep instead (or whatever path it happens to have on your system)

I don't even know how it is printing Loader Stop complete.!! because I see an exit call right before this step and it is called without any condition check!

kill -9 $pid 
sleep 3
exit 1;

echo "Loader Stop complete."

your right I was reading it wrong. That seems to be my issue. thanks guys