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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Cannot create a directory Post 302390942 by methyl on Friday 29th of January 2010 12:45:44 PM
Old 01-29-2010
What is the name of the directory?

/apps/cron
OR
/apps/cron/healthcheck.log

And..

What is the value of $_LOGFILE ?

And..
There is evidence that the script is running from cron.
Because the mkdir statement does not contain a full path it has probably created a directory called:
/healthcheck.log
on a previous run. Therefore it still exists.

If we guess that the intention is to create a directory called /apps/cron/healthcheck.log the script needs the full pathname.
Code:
if [ -d /apps/cron/healthcheck.log ]
then
   echo "directory already exists"
else
   mkdir /apps/cron/healthcheck.log
   echo "directory  created" >>  $_LOGFILE
fi

The value in $_LOGFILE will need to be a full pathname too. The environment for cron is not the same as the user environment.
Last edited by methyl; 01-29-2010 at 02:06 PM.. Reason: Another question and more guesses
 

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