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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Running a shell script in cron...email not sending - help?? Post 302217586 by zaxxon on Wednesday 23rd of July 2008 05:12:53 AM
Old 07-23-2008
Have the output of that cronjob redirected to some file like
Code:
51 * * * * /export/home/bdodym/6start.sh >> /somelogdir/6start.sh.out 2>&1

and check what's wrong. Additionally you can add a "set -x" into your shell script to see what's going on inside.
Don't forget that cronjobs usually don't have the same environment like when a user would start the script - so you should source the .profile or .kshrc or .bashrc, whatever your environment setup files are.
 

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install-mh - initialize the nmh environment SYNOPSIS
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