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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cron job is not working for two scripts Post 302517673 by DGPickett on Wednesday 27th of April 2011 12:15:49 PM
Old 04-27-2011
First, #! can only have one argument, like "#!/usr/bin/sed -f", see man execvp. Maybe make a shell script wrapper for your perl call, so you can have any command line you want. I get very little use out of anything but #!/usr/bin/ksh or the bash equivalent. I find I can test/enhance better with a wrapper.

Make your cron command log somewhere permanent, so you can see if it has anything to tell you:
Code:
( echo Start CL1 `date` ;  /dir1/dir2/cron_test.env ; echo "Env done, start pl" ;  /dir1/dir2/transfer_file_to_target_updatedone.pl ) >>/var/tmp/cron.log 2>&1

 

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pcp.conf

PCP.CONF(5)							File Formats Manual						       PCP.CONF(5)

NAME

       pcp.conf - the Performance Co-Pilot configuration and environment file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/pcp.conf

DESCRIPTION

       When  using  Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) tools and utilities and when calling PCP library functions, a standard set of environment variables
       are defined in /etc/pcp.conf.  These variables are generally used to specify the location of various PCP pieces in the file system and  may
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SEE ALSO

       PCPIntro(1), PCPIntro(3), PMAPI(3), pmGetConfig(3) and pcp.env(5).

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