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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script not executing in CRONTAB Post 302262671 by methyl on Friday 28th of November 2008 10:07:09 AM
Old 11-28-2008
There are a couple of points to get you moving.
1) The "." in the find statement is relative to the home directory of the account for that crontab user (which is probably not /tmp/test).
On the line before the find, first try changing to the directory from which the script was called.
cd "`dirname $0`"
2) Any output from a cron job goes to the mail account for that crontab user. That's where to look for the reason for a cron failing.
3) There are tidier ways of finding out whether a file has gained one of more lines containg the text "ERROR". Because "diff" shows the context around the difference you may get false matches. Unless you use "grep -q" or redirect the output the results will appear in the mail for that crontab user.
4) Did you use "crontab -e" to edit the crontab ? If not, cron won't know that the file has changed.

First let's get the cron to run.
 

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