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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Expect script doesn't work under crontab Post 302284422 by samnyc on Thursday 5th of February 2009 12:47:26 PM
Old 02-05-2009
I updated crontab but still it's not working. I have waited over 30 minutes already.

When I do grep for the process I see this...

ps -ef |grep auto2
root 471 470 0 12:23:00 ? 0:00 /usr/local/bin/expect -f /home/citi/scripts/citi_auto2.sh
root 552 328 0 12:48:15 pts/1 0:00 grep auto2
root 470 413 0 12:23:00 ? 0:00 sh -c /home/citi/scripts/citi_auto2.sh >> /var/cron/log 2>&1

Also, I got email after running the script...

Your "cron" job on web07
/home/citi/scripts/citi_auto2.sh

produced the following output:

spawn /usr/bin/sh


Any idea?
 

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ATRUN(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						  ATRUN(8)

NAME
atrun -- run jobs queued for later execution SYNOPSIS
atrun [-l load_avg] [-d] DESCRIPTION
Atrun runs jobs queued by at(1). Root's crontab(5) file /etc/crontab has to contain the line */5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun so that atrun gets invoked every five minutes. At every invocation, atrun will start all the jobs in the lowercase queues whose start time has elapsed. In addition, if the load average over the last minute was less than the specified limit then a maximum of one batch job (denoted by the uppercase queues) is started. Before starting a job, atrun will check the status of its owner's account with pam(3) and refuse to run the job if the account is unavail- able, e.g., locked out or expired. OPTIONS
-l load_avg Specify a limiting load factor, over which batch jobs should not be run, instead of the default of 1.5 * number of active CPUs. -d Debug; print error messages to standard error instead of using syslog(3). WARNINGS
For atrun to work, you have to start up a cron(8) daemon. FILES
/etc/pam.d/atrun pam.conf(5) configuration file for atrun /var/at/jobs Directory containing job files /var/at/spool Directory containing output spool files SEE ALSO
at(1), crontab(1), pam(3), syslog(3), crontab(5), pam.conf(5), cron(8) BUGS
The functionality of atrun should be merged into cron(8). BSD
October 30, 2012 BSD
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