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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Cron not inherting the environment in solaris 2.5.1 Post 302711483 by venu on Saturday 6th of October 2012 01:11:53 PM
Old 10-06-2012
Cron not inherting the environment in solaris 2.5.1
Solaris 2.5.1

I have written a shell script that creates a tar file and then ftp's the file to an other box. The shell script perfectly executes when run manually through terminal. But when i schedule it through cron, its not executing and showing exit code RC =1 in cron log.

I have added the 2 lines cd / and . . profile per the research i did, but still wont execute when schduled in cron
Code:
#!/bin/sh

cd /

.  . profile

{
   create tar file  function
}

{  
   ftp function
}

Appreciate if anyone can point what is wrong and throw a few lines..

Venu
Last edited by fpmurphy; 10-09-2012 at 11:19 AM.. Reason: code tags please!
 

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yum-cron

yum-cron(8)															       yum-cron(8)

NAME

       yum-cron - an interface to convieniently call yum from cron

SYNOPSIS

       yum-cron [config-file]

DESCRIPTION

       yum-cron  is  an  alternate  interface to yum that is optimised to be convenient to call from cron.  It provides methods to keep repository
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       config-file  is	used  to optionally specify the path to the configuration file to use.	If it is not given, the default configuration file
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FILES

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SEE ALSO

       yum (8)

AUTHORS

       See the Authors file included with this program.

BUGS

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