08-22-2008
Weird Behavior of a Script
ok, there's a script i'm working on written in shell programming. #!/bin/sh
this script is written to spit out the contents of certain variables inside of it so the output looks something like this:
server01=89 server02=69 server03=89 server04=76
now, when i run this script from the command line, it outputs the expected results.
however, when i run it through cron, the fields are missing. i get something like this:
server01= server02= server03= server04=
any idea what could be causing this?
btw, in crontab, the script is set up to direct its output to a log file and it is in that log file that the fields are missing
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IPESCRIPT(1) General Commands Manual IPESCRIPT(1)
NAME
ipescript - Run an Ipe script (written in Lua)
SYNOPSIS
ipescript script { arguments }
DESCRIPTION
ipescript runs an Ipe script written in Lua. The Ipe bindings are automatically available in the script. Ipescript looks for the script
in any of the script directories.
The script argument should not contain the .lua extension.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
ipescript respects the following environment variables:
IPELATEXDIR
the directory where ipetoipe runs Pdflatex.
IPESCRIPTS a list of directories where Ipescript will look for
scripts. When this variable is not set, Ipe searches first the current directory, then ~/.ipe/scripts, and finally the system-wide
Ipe script directory. When this variable is set, it should contain a list of directories, separated by semicolons. A single under-
score is replaced by the system-wide Ipe script directory.
IPEDEBUG
set this to 1 for debugging output from ipescript.
AUTHOR
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REPORTING BUGS
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SEE ALSO
Ipe is documented fully in The Ipe Manual, which is available online at http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/manual/manual.html .
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