Execution problem with Cron: Script works manually but not w/Cron. Why?


 
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Old 04-15-2015
Execution problem with Cron: Script works manually but not w/Cron. Why?

Hello gurus,
I am making what I think is a simple db2 call from within a shell script but I am having difficulty producing the desired
report when I run the script shown below from a shell script in cron. For example, my script and the crontab file setup
is shown below:

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
db2 connect to TASMQ02;
DATE=`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S`;
db2 call monreport.dbsummary> /db2storage/perfmon/perfmon_data/monreport_dbsummary_$DATE.out ;

This script works as expected when I execute it(./monreport_dbsummary.ksh) manually and I can review the monreport_dbsummary_$DATE.out file.
However, when I added this script to my crontab, it appears to run but produces absolutely nothing...the output files are all zeroes(empty).
Does anyone know what could be my problem? Can someone help to resolve this?
Here is the cron setup for the scripts I intend to run:

Code:
##Run the following monreport every 30 minutes from 4 AM to 10 PM daily
##Discontinue after the Test by commenting out the next 6 crontab line
##
0,30 04-22 * * * /db2storage/perfmon/monreport_pkgcache.ksh
0,30 04-22 * * * /db2storage/perfmon/monreport_dbsummary.ksh
0,30 04-22 * * * /db2storage/perfmon/monreport_currentsql.ksh
0,30 04-22 * * * /db2storage/perfmon/monreport_connection.ksh
0,30 04-22 * * * /db2storage/perfmon/monreport_lockwait.ksh
0,30 04-22 * * * /db2storage/perfmon/monreport_currentapps.ksh


Any and all help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks
Okonita

Last edited by vgersh99; 04-15-2015 at 03:31 PM.. Reason: code tags, please!
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Old 04-15-2015
Look at the bottom of the page at 'More UNIX and Linux Forum Topics You Might Find Helpful'
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Old 04-15-2015
It's quite possible that db2 is "interactive". You may have to redirect stdin, stdout, etc... to force things to work non-interactively. My guess is that it's the stdin that is giving you grief. Try redirecting using </dev/null.
# 4  
Old 04-15-2015
did you check your cron environment? did you try to add full path to db2 command?
 
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