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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Problems with script and Cron Post 302413670 by richie190784 on Friday 16th of April 2010 02:28:29 PM
Old 04-16-2010
Problems with script and Cron
Hi Guys,

total newbie here, Ive read through some of the threads about cron and scripts not working and have still drawn a blank as to why mine isnt working correctly.

I have a script that runs the ausearch with a set of criteria i have setup, the only access i have to the system is via puttycm(putty) and su to the root account.

The script checks the audit log for the criteria and dumps it out to a file i have specified, now when I call this from bash it runs fine and creates all the files and populates all the files I expect it to from the files I am watching in auditd.

when I setup cron to do this all the files get created but nothing get populated into them.

Sample script:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

TODAYS=`date +%Y-%m-%d`

mkdir /var/audits/TC/$TODAYS
mkdir /var/audits/Apache/$TODAYS
mkdir /var/audits/Tomcat/$TODAYS

/sbin/ausearch -ua 500 -ts today -k tc-tocs -i > /var/audits/TC/$TODAYS/tc-tocs.txt

from crontab -e:
17 19 * * * /var/audits/script/audits.sh

As you can see I am using absolute paths so i dont think its that, this really has me stumped.

Can anyone lend a hand please?
Last edited by pludi; 04-21-2010 at 08:59 AM..
 

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NAME

       service - run a System V init script

SYNOPSIS

       service SCRIPT COMMAND [OPTIONS]

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       service --help | -h | --version

DESCRIPTION

       service runs a System V init script in as predictable environment as possible, removing most environment variables and with current working
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       The SCRIPT parameter specifies a System V init script, located in /etc/init.d/SCRIPT.  The  supported  values  of  COMMAND  depend  on  the
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