Hey there, I'm a total newbie unix guy here and just picking this stuff up. Have a very small script I put together that works fine from the command line but not once I put it in a cron job. Searched and found this thread and am wondering it it has something to do with setting variables, though the error I'm getting seems to be with exicuting the date() function.
Here it goes...
the 'lastUpdated' file contains a date like so... "2007 06 26"
Like I said, if I put this in the command line it works great, just not in a cron job.
I have a very basic script that essentially sends a log file, via FTP, to a backup server. My cron entry to run this every night is:
55 23 * * * /usr/bin/archive_logs
The script runs perfectly when executed manually, and actually worked via cron for about three weeks. However, it mysteriously... (3 Replies)
Hi all-
I'm trying to search through some .gz log files to verify certain feeds have passed through our app.
I have a small script that I wrote in hopes that I could automate the checking but haven't been able to get the zgrep to work. When I copy it to the command line directly it works... (2 Replies)
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The above command gives different results when run on a cron job. When run manually the result is accurate. (2 Replies)
Ubuntu 9.10 is my linux distro
Based on forums they say that the problem is with environment .
here is my case:
login as user, then sudo -s
using this command: s3cmd put file s3://bucket >>worked!
now here is the simple script intended for testing:
#! /bin/bash
env >/tmp/cronjob.log... (1 Reply)
Hey guys. Hopefully this is an easy one but having reference similar problems on the web I still can't fix it.
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Hi All,
I have a many cron jobs scheduled in my AIX server.
Only one cron not getting executed in the same server but that job is good on all other servers.
Here is my cron , which will keep last 30 files and remove others.,
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OSX 10.9
I am building a script that evaluates the difference between 2 files. Here is a command that does not work transparently.
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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:
#!/bin/ksh
db2... (3 Replies)
Oracle Linux 6.
Trying to set up a simple monitoring of memory usage. This command does exactly what I want at the command line:
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