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:
Hi All,
I created a shell script and it works perfectly fine when I run from the command. But the same does not work as expected when I call it from a cron job.
Here is the shell script(scan.sh):
#
#
#Which directory to scan for files?... (7 Replies)
Hi everyone:
I'm trying to make a CRON job that will execute Fridays at 7am. I have the following:
* 7 * * 5
I've been studying up on CRON and I know to have this in a file and then "crontab filename.txt" to add it to the CRON job list.
The CRON part I believe I understand, but I would... (6 Replies)
Hello, I have the following crontab entry that does not seem to be running. When I check /var/cron/log, it is not there. Here is my os info:
SunOS birch 5.9 Generic_118558-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240
Here is the crontab entry:
01 21 * * * find /export/app/datafeed/flus/archive -mtime... (5 Replies)
I set up a new cron job. I have set cron jobs many times in the past and never faced issues. For some reasons my new cron job is not working.This is how my cron job looks like. plz help me out guys.
3,8,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,53,58 * * * * /siebel/sblp900/home/FSMTaskChk/script... (14 Replies)
Hello,
I have written a script that has a sudo command to change file permissions within it.
When I run the script manually, the sudo command inside of it works fine.
When the script is run through crontab I get the error "cron: not found".
It the same user profile that I am using... (6 Replies)
hi all, i have scripts executable in manully, but not working in cron. any ideas? thanks a lot?
* * * * * /home/dir/dir/file.sh
#! /bin/sh
alarmPath="/home/dir/monitoringAlarm"
alarmDateTime="$(date +%Y%m%d) $(date +%H%M%S)"
tomcatPID=`pidof /usr/local/jdk1.6.0_13/bin/java`
echo "tomcat... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I wrote a script as below,
#!/bin/ksh
. /app/home/etc/sudo.profile >/dev/null
java -jar $HOME/abc.jar
The jar file abc.jar is located in the same folder as the script.
When I'm manually running that script the jar file gets executed. However if I set a cron job, it... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I'm executing a python script via cron job. The way it is set up is, I'm editing a file called local00 22 * * * root su - -c "/opt/setup_dir/bin/run_bkp -p"
When this job executes, the command-specific logfile and the syslog (where the logs are supposed to go) show half of the logs(no... (2 Replies)
cron process in AIX is there when I do ps -ef |grep cron, but none of cron job is working. It appears that cron process is hanging or having some issues? How do you resolve this? Do I kill the cron process by kill -9 PID? and how to start it?
Please advise. (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a many cron jobs scheduled in my AIX server.
Only one cron not getting executed in the same server but that job is good on all other servers.
Here is my cron , which will keep last 30 files and remove others.,
00 00 * * * /usr/bin/find /tmp/reports/nmon -name *.nmon -mtime... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Thala
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dircmp
dircmp(1) User Commands dircmp(1)NAME
dircmp - directory comparison
SYNOPSIS
dircmp [-ds] [-w n] dir1 dir2
DESCRIPTION
The dircmp command examines dir1 and dir2 and generates various tabulated information about the contents of the directories. Listings of
files that are unique to each directory are generated for all the options. If no option is entered, a list is output indicating whether the
file names common to both directories have the same contents.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-d Compares the contents of files with the same name in both directories and output a list telling what must be changed in the two
files to bring them into agreement. The list format is described in diff(1).
-s Suppresses messages about identical files.
-w n Changes the width of the output line to n characters. The default width is 72.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
dir1 A path name of a directory to be compared.
dir2
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of dircmp when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of dircmp: LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
SAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred. (Differences in directory contents are not considered errors.)
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWesu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO cmp(1), diff(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5)SunOS 5.11 1 Feb 1995 dircmp(1)