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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Crontab a Script Post 302158773 by moutaz1983 on Wednesday 16th of January 2008 08:35:39 AM
Old 01-16-2008
Crontab a Script

I know my question maybe eazy, but it realy cause a problem for me

I have a Perl script to run and get some output, I run this script using perl /moutaz/ciscolog/telnet.pl

I made another script as followSmilie/moutaz/ciscolog/script)
#!/bin/bash
perl /moutaz/ciscolog/telnet.pl
cp /moutaz/ciscolog/ciscolog /moutaz/ciscolog/ciscolog-$(date'+%H-%M')-$RANDOM

Then made crontab as follow:
15 * * * * /moutaz/ciscolog/script

The question:
-when apply command from shell it worked fine.
- from crontab it doesn't, only the cp command work.

what is the problem?
 

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