Make sure all the commands you're using are in PATH. Cron gives you a very minimal PATH by default. This problem is so frequent it's on our FAQ. . /etc/profile may be sufficient to get you a better value for PATH.
As for the syntax of your line in crontab -e, that expects 5 fields before the actual line of shell code, describing which days/hours/minutes to be run.
To run a script every day at 1am:
See man 5 crontab.
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You could also try the line
which should be executed every minute, creating or updating the timestamp on the /tmp/cronworks file. If it doesn't get created, something's wrong.
Hello,
I have problem in executing a shell script. When the shell script is executed at the shell prompt the script works successfully but when the same script is run as a cron job it fails to execute the files called within the shell script.
I have scheduled the job in my crontab file as
... (6 Replies)
I have a perl script, when I ran manually it works perfect. I check the permissions which are fine.
How can I find out why it is not running? how can I setup a log to check.
I am running it on solaris 9.
It compares multiple files, SCP and then send out an e-mail.
As I said when I ran it... (2 Replies)
My shell script runs fine both as a cron job and when i issue it.
However, I wish to differentiate when it runs as a cron-job so the "echo" statements are not issued (they get mailed to me, which i don't want).
I tried checking $USER but since the cron was created in my user that does not... (5 Replies)
I have written a simple bash script that will run a wget command to recursively ftp an entire directories and it's contents.
#!/bin/bash
wget -r -N ftp://user:pass@server//VOL1/dir
If I run from the regular command line it works fine.
root@BUSRV: /media/backup1$ ./gwbu
When I put it in... (1 Reply)
Hi, new to this forum and not sure if this is the right place to post. I'm new to cron jobs and scripts, and I need some help with a script to be used with a cron job. I already have a bot set up at a certain website address and need a script that the cron job will load every day that tells it to... (1 Reply)
Status quo is, within a web application, which is coded completely in php (not by me, I dont know php), I have to fill out several fields, and execute it manually by clicking the "go" button in my browser, several times a day.
Thats because:
The script itself pulls data (textfiles) from a... (3 Replies)
Hi,
The following shell script runs without any problem when executed manulally.
USED=$(df -h /arch | tail -1 | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d '%' -f 1)
if
then
find /arch/AUBUAT/ -type f -mtime +0 | xargs rm
find /arch/AUBMIG/ -type f -mtime +0 | xargs rm
fi
But the same gives below... (6 Replies)
how to run a script using cron job and send the output as attachment via e-mail using unix. please help me.
how my cron job entry should be?
As of now my cron job entry is to run the script at specific time,
15 03 * * * /path/sample.sh | mail -s "Logs" email_id
In the above entry, what... (8 Replies)
Hi,
1)
If some job supposed to run on 1st of every month at 7 AM
In cron job when we have a blackout on the 1st ( i.e when 1st falls on a sunday ) how can we make the job run the next business day?
2) How can we run a job on 25th of every quarter 7 AM(jan,apr,jul,oct)
And if 25th... (5 Replies)