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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell script not working in cron Post 302388574 by malikp on Wednesday 20th of January 2010 10:25:43 PM
Old 01-20-2010
Question Shell script not working in cron
Hello,
I know little about shell scripting and creating a script, and worked fine in the command line. But not work in the cron. Below you could see the script

Code:
#!/bin/sh
LOGFILE=/home/transfield/mou/test.log
# Find yesterday Date and copy files
TODAY=$(date --date= +%F)
YESTERDAY=$(date --date="1 day ago" +%F)
YESTERDAY1=$(date --date="2 day ago" +%F)
echo $TODAY >> $LOGFILE
echo $YESTERDAY >> $LOGFILE
echo "## Copying processed files ##" >> $LOGFILE
ls -l /var/lct/mou2/processed | grep $TODAY | awk '{print " " $8}' > /home/trans/mou/processedfiles
ls -l /var/lct/mou2/processed | grep $YESTERDAY | awk '{print " " $8}' >> /home/trans/mou/processedfiles
exit


So far I found when I use corn following part not working, nothing goes to the processedfiles file.
Code:
ls -l /var/lct/mou2/processed | grep $TODAY | awk '{print " " $8}' > /home/trans/mou/processedfiles
ls -l /var/lct/mou2/processed | grep $YESTERDAY | awk '{print " " $8}' >> /home/trans/mou/processedfiles

This work perfect in command line. Corn job and command line use by the same user.
Hope some one could direct me to correct path.

thank you,
Last edited by pludi; 01-21-2010 at 03:47 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

apticron

apticron(1)						      General Commands Manual						       apticron(1)

NAME

       apticron - Generate a mail listing packages which are pending an upgrade

SYNOPSIS

       apticron [--cron]

DESCRIPTION

       apticron is a shell script which generates a mail with a list of all packages currently pending an upgrade, as well as summary of changes -
       using apt-listchanges - to a configurable Email address.

       apticron is mainly intended for automatic notification of pending security updates but can also be used	in  many  other  situations  where
       timely updates are necessary.

       The --cron option is only meant to be used when invoked by cron in order to run no more than once a day.

FILES

       /etc/apticron/apticron.conf
	      Configuration file, Email address to mail and profile for use with apt-listchanges are configurable.

       /etc/cron.d/apticron
	      Cron job for executing apticron daily.

       /etc/cron.daily/apticron
	      Fallback cron script for executing apticron (if no crond running or system down at designated time).

       /var/lib/misc/apticron.cron
	      Time stamp file used by apticron when invoked with --cron option.

SEE ALSO

       apt-get(8), apt-listchanges(1), cron(8)

AUTHOR

       Apticron  was initially developed by Colm MacCarthaigh <colm.maccarthaigh@heanet.ie> with contributions from Marc Sherman <msherman@projec-
       tile.ca>. Since 2006 it is maintained and improved by Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <tiago@debian.org>.

																       apticron(1)
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