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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cron job problem, passing a parm Post 302110370 by bheemsen on Monday 12th of March 2007 02:01:28 PM

03-12-2007

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Hi roopla and sb008,

As I said earlier, there was no problem in the script. I could run it successfully as a standalone script.

Here is my complete script:
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#!/usr/bin/ksh
. ~/.profile # for cron job environment visibility

filedate=`date +%m%d%H`
LogPath=/appl/loopqual/ait/log
Log=$LogPath/MyScript_$filedate.log
logtime=`date +%H%M%S`
echo "MyScript.sh started $logtime\n" > $Log

endmsg()
{
logtime=`date +%H%M%S`
echo "\nMyScript.sh end" $logtime >> $Log
exit 0
}

if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
echo "Missing input parmameter\n" >> $Log
endmsg
fi
delete_agedmlr()
{
echo "Execute spDeleteAgedMlr" >> $Log
/appl/loopqual/ait/scripts/run_sp_2op.sh spDeleteAgedMlr W$1 delete_agedmlr

if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]
then
echo "spDeleteAgedMlr failed\n" >> $Log
fi
echo "spDeleteAgedMlr completed\n" >> $Log
}

delete_agedmlr $1
endmsg
sync
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Here is the output (from log file) when I ran it from cron.

MyScript.sh started 105331

Missing input parmameter

MyScript.sh end 105331

---------------------------------------------
Here is the output (from log file) when I ran it from command prompt.

$MyScript.sh 2

MyScript.sh started 105856

Execute spDeleteAgedMlr
spDeleteAgedMlr completed

MyScript.sh end 105857
------------------------------------------------

I do not understand what is going on here and why the script is not able to find the input parmater from cron entry.

Please help!!!!
Thanx..
-Bheem

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queuedefs

queuedefs(4)							   File Formats 						      queuedefs(4)

NAME

       queuedefs - queue description file for at, batch, and cron

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/cron.d/queuedefs

DESCRIPTION

       The queuedefs file describes the characteristics of the queues managed by cron(1M). Each non-comment line in this file describes one queue.
       The format of the lines are as follows:

       q.[njobj][nicen][nwaitw]

       The fields in this line are:

       q	The name of the queue. a is the default queue for jobs started by at(1); b is the default queue for jobs  started  by  batch  (see
		at(1)); c is the default queue for jobs run from a crontab(1) file.

       njob	The  maximum  number of jobs that can be run simultaneously in that queue; if more than njob jobs are ready to run, only the first
		njob jobs will be run, and the others will be run as jobs that are currently running terminate.  The default value is  100.

       nice	The nice(1) value to give to all jobs in that queue that are not run with a user ID of super-user.  The default value is 2.

       nwait	The number of seconds to wait before rescheduling a job that was deferred because more than njob jobs were running in  that  job's
		queue, or because the system-wide limit of jobs executing has been reached.  The default value is 60.

       Lines beginning with # are comments, and are ignored.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1 A sample file.

	 #
	 #
	 a.4j1n
	 b.2j2n90w

       This  file  specifies that the a queue, for at jobs, can have up to 4 jobs running simultaneously; those jobs will be run with a nice value
       of 1.  As no nwait value was given, if a job cannot be run because too many other jobs are running cron will wait 60 seconds before  trying
       again to run it.

       The  b  queue, for batch(1) jobs, can have up to 2 jobs running simultaneously; those jobs will be run with a nice(1) value of 2.  If a job
       cannot be run because too many other jobs are running, cron(1M) will wait 90 seconds before trying again to run it. All	other  queues  can
       have up to 100 jobs running simultaneously; they will be run with a nice value of 2, and if a job cannot be run because too many other jobs
       are running cron will wait 60 seconds before trying again to run it.

FILES

       /etc/cron.d/queuedefs	queue description file for  at, batch, and  cron.

SEE ALSO

       at(1), crontab(1), nice(1), cron(1M)

SunOS 5.11							    1 Mar 1994							      queuedefs(4)

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