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Operating Systems Solaris crontab is not working. Post 302541475 by agama on Sunday 24th of July 2011 09:36:09 PM
Old 07-24-2011
I would do a few things:

1) redirect stdout and stderr of the script some place
2) supply the full path of the script. ./scriptname is bad form. Makes the assumption that cron sets the working directory to the directory that the script resides in. May or may not be the case, but don't risk it.
3) Add a !# line to the script and remove sh from the command line in the crontab.


Code:
3 * * * *  /home/root/bin/sicaklik.sh >/tmp/sicaklik.log 2>&1

This is a guess as to the path of the script but should illustrate what I mean.

Code:
#!/bin/sh 
/usr/sbin/ipmitool sdr type temperature  | grep T_AMB > /sicaklik.temp 
scp /sicaklik.temp 192.168.40.184:/usr/local/nagios/temp.temp

Adding the #! will cause the script to be run with sh.
Last edited by agama; 07-24-2011 at 10:37 PM.. Reason: clarification
 

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script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME

       script - make record of a terminal session

SYNOPSIS

       script [-a] [filename]

DESCRIPTION

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