Cron isnt at fault here, the script is. Have you remembered that cron does not read profiles and does not have any user environmental settings ?? Any script that runs should assume this and define any variabvles, home directories. Ive just had a similar problem with a DBA who wrote a few scripts and nothing worked. "Cron is broken" was his loud cry accross the room.
Well, turns out his script didnt set any variables or paths so commands werent found and the script never ran.
What I suggest you do is have a play, run the script in verbose mode :-
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Then re-direct the output of the file, within the script, to a file
or adjust the cron entry to redirect output from the script :-
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I'm having problems with cron. First cron is running as a process when i send the top command and I am logged in as root. I type crontab -e to edit/create my cron job. What I'm trying to do is run a perl script on my server (the script does work, i know because I type perl script.pl... (2 Replies)
We have hundreds of threads involving cron and crontab. Rather than creating a post with dozens of links, I thought I'd just write up a tutorial with only a few selected links.
The Basics
cron is a daemon that runs periodic tasks. crontab is name of textfile that is used to control cron. ... (0 Replies)
I have a solaris9 x86 server using ssh as follows:
SSH Version Sun_SSH_1.0, protocol versions 1.5/2.0.
The remote server solaris9 sparc has exactly the same version ssh installed.
I am running a script on my server which includes the following command to run a script on the remote server:... (4 Replies)
I am on AS3 Update 4 Linux
and am having an issue with an automated ftp script, I tried using the fd/sub proc method and that did not seem to work either. I normally use the following method to perform my ftp's but for some reason it works if I launch the script at the command line but in Cron it... (4 Replies)
Hi,
How to add a cron job in /etc/crontab using a shell script.??:confused:
Actually the requirement is we need to run a script say, XXX.sh every 10 min through “cron”.
That can be achieved by adding the below code line in the /etc/crontab , (i.e., “crontab -e ” command to add this to the... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I have sevaral jbos with bunch of export commands like export VARIABLE=value.
They work perfectly when I run manually but when I try to run from crontab it stops right at this export command.
But when I replace these export with these, crontab job works fine.
VARIABLE = value;... (5 Replies)
Does the use of cron (HP-UX 11) present a security risk IF it is only given to accounts which have shell access anyway.
If it does present a risk, what is the risk?
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Hi,
I have a very simple script that queries from a DB2 table. The script has 3 parts - (i) Sets the db2profile (ii) connects to db2 using credentials (iii) executes the query.This script works fine if i run it manually from the command prompt. However when scheduled in crontab, it proceeds... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a query related to UNIX Crontab scripts -
Issue: Server space on the db server got 100% full as a result of which the cron scripts did not run. The space utilization issue got resolved in the afternoon. The crons scheduled for a time post the resolution caught up. However the... (1 Reply)