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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Question regarding the cron Post 302407034 by methyl on Wednesday 24th of March 2010 11:39:22 AM
Old 03-24-2010
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/home/admt/common/script/Report_generation.ksh
As a minimum this script will need a "cd" to wherever the files "Units.html" and "Hundreds.html" reside.

When you say "not working" please post any error messages. In this case the error messages will be in the unix mail for the account who owns the cron.


Personally I would take all processing out of cron totally (including >> redirection) and do the whole lot in the shell script under a controlled environment with a shebang line at the start of the script. Obviously still invoking the shell script from cron.
Last edited by methyl; 03-24-2010 at 12:50 PM.. Reason: spellin & more
 

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