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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers cron entry Post 302104709 by sb008 on Friday 26th of January 2007 05:30:13 PM
Old 01-26-2007
Probably your cron job is running.

However it fails.

A cron runs with a very limited PATH.
Depending on whether it is a root or ordinary user cron job the PATH is simething like:

root: PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
ordinary user: /usr/bin

When you execute a command on a shell prompt you usually have a much bigger PATH

So, if your script uses a command which is not located in /usr/bin (and /usr/sbin) the command will fail and therefore the cronjob.

That way it seems is if the cron never ran.

Therefore, to avoid this define PATH at the start for your script.

Since you do not redirect standard error, but only standard out, you never see anything indicating your cronjob went wrong.

You can check the cron log to see if the cronjob actually started.
 

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globus-job-cancel

GLOBUS-JOB-CANCEL(1)						  GRAM5 Commands					      GLOBUS-JOB-CANCEL(1)

NAME

       globus-job-cancel - Cancel a GRAM batch job

SYNOPSIS

       globus-job-cancel [-f | -force] [-q | -quiet] JOBID

       globus-job-cancel [-help] [-usage] [-version] [-versions]

DESCRIPTION

       The globus-job-cancel program cancels the job named by JOBID. Any cached files associated with the job will remain until globus-job-clean
       is executed for the job.

       By default, globus-job-cancel prompts the user prior to canceling the job. This behavior can be overridden by specifying the -f or -force
       command-line options.

OPTIONS

       The full set of options to globus-job-cancel are:

       -help, -usage
	   Display a help message to standard error and exit.

       -version
	   Display the software version of the globus-job-cancel program to standard output.

       -version
	   Display the software version of the globus-job-cancel program including DiRT information to standard output.

       -force, -f
	   Do not prompt to confirm job cancel and clean-up.

       -quiet, -q
	   Do not print diagnostics for succesful cancel. Implies -f

ENVIRONMENT

       If the following variables affect the execution of globus-job-cancel.

       X509_USER_PROXY
	   Path to proxy credential.

       X509_CERT_DIR
	   Path to trusted certificate directory.

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