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Old 06-20-2012
Cron job is not working in the desired manner on IBM AIX

Hi,
I have created a cron job on IBM AIX but it is not working in desired manner !
Here are the steps which I have followed :-
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
#------------------------------------------------------------------

find /some/file/at/the/user/side/test.log -exec cp {} /other/file/at/the/user/side/testBackup.log \;

cat /dev/null > test.log

tar -cvf test testBackup1.log.tar /other/file/at/the/user/side/testBackup.log

gzip /other/file/at/the/user/side/testBackup1.log.tar

chmod +x CronScript.ksh


echo "\n****************************************************\n"
echo "Done"
echo "DATE: ${DATE}"
echo "\n****************************************************"

Purpose of this Script :- (a.)The above script will copy the contents of parent file into the child file at some location.

(b.) After copying the contents from the parent file, the script will make the parent file empty.

(c.) Then it will tar and gzip the child file.


(2.) After this I created a cron file net-sense.cron

In this I wrote the following things :-

5 15 19 6 2 /some/file/at/the/user/side/CronScript.ksh


Purpose of this :- This cron job was supposed to run at 15:05 hrs 19th June Tuesday and should have performed the steps in the CronScript.ksh

The cron job ran at the above mentioned time but it failed to :-

(a.) Empty the parent file
(b.) Tar and gzip the child file




When I execute the CronScript.ksh separately I am getting the desired output but I do the same with the help of cron I am getting the desired output ! L


Can anyone please let me know that where I have failed in the logic implementation !

Please help me out in getting the desired output with the help of this cron job !

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Last edited by vbe; 06-20-2012 at 05:26 AM..
 

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