I am not sure if the entrie cron is failing or if just the log file isd not getting created. When I do it from the command line, the log file gets created and filled with my verbose output from the script.
Is there something special to do with my syntax in the cron entry ?
Thread: Commands to call script work from command line but not from Cron entry Edit Post
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I don't know why I had the "tee" in there. Probably used it while I was testing. I have since taken it out:
Hello,
I'm stuck and confused as to why when I execute things form the command line it works but when in a script it doesn't.
My script:
### creating a lock on the console
touch /var/run/console.lock
chmod 600 /var/run/console.lock
echo "$User" >>... (2 Replies)
Howdie everyone...
I have a shell script RemoveFiles.sh
Inside this file, it only has two commands as below:
rm -f ../../reportToday/temp/*
rm -f ../../report/*
My problem is that when i execute this script, nothing happened. Files remained unremoved. I don't see any error message as it... (2 Replies)
Hey there, I'm a total newbie unix guy here and just picking this stuff up. Have a very small script I put together that works fine from the command line but not once I put it in a cron job. Searched and found this thread and am wondering it it has something to do with setting variables, though the... (7 Replies)
I have a script which runs fine through command line, but doesn't run through cron. There are some variables which are set by the .profile file which are used by the script. Is it that cront does not pick these variables.
$/export/home/rahul/bin/createfile.sh >>... (3 Replies)
Hi, I'm new to these forums, and I'm hoping that someone can solve this problem...
To make things short:
I have DD-wrt set up on a router.
I'm trying to run a script in CRON that fetches the daily password from my database using SSH.
CRON is set like so(in web interface):
* * * *... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a script that can be run via cron or via the command line.
Is there any way that I can place something on the script to be able to distinguish/differentiate whether the script was run via a user in the command line or whether it was run from the cron? (3 Replies)
In my cron thare is a line like
24 11 * * * /usr/batch/bin/abc.sh > /usr/batch/log/abc.log 2>&1
along with other entries. I want to comment out this line through a shell script. My local variable 'line'ontains the full entry (i.e. 24 11 * * * /usr/batch/bin/abc.sh > /usr/batch/log/abc.log... (4 Replies)
Hi, I have a script that seems to run to completion when in the command-line, but when it is run using the cron, it seems to time out.
They both start and run fine, but on the CRON it stops prematurely.
The script hits an API every few seconds and grabs data.
Does anyone have any idea on... (4 Replies)
Hi
I have a text file (Input.txt) with two column entries separated by tab as given below:
aaa str1
bbb str2
cccccc str3
dddd str4
eee str3
ssss str2
sdf str3
hhh str1
fff str2
ccc str3
.....
.....
..... (1 Reply)
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I have a script(main.sh) which calls another script(Get_Files.sh) and gets a value in a variable like the below:
File_to_Refresh="$(sh /Aug/work/Get_Files.sh /Aug/Work/Universal_File.txt)"
Now I have to schedule the script main.sh for 3 different files i.e. the Universal_File.txt with 3... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
crond
CRON(8) System Manager's Manual CRON(8)NAME
cron - daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron)
SYNOPSIS
cron
DESCRIPTION
Cron should be started from /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local. It will return immediately, so you don't need to start it with '&'.
Cron searches /var/spool/cron for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron
also searches for /etc/crontab and the files in the /etc/cron.d/ directory, which are in a different format (see crontab(5)). Cron then
wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs, checking each command to see if it should be run in the current minute. When execut-
ing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if
such exists).
Additionally, cron checks each minute to see if its spool directory's modtime (or the modtime on /etc/crontab) has changed, and if it has,
cron will then examine the modtime on all crontabs and reload those which have changed. Thus cron need not be restarted whenever a crontab
file is modified. Note that the Crontab(1) command updates the modtime of the spool directory whenever it changes a crontab.
SEE ALSO crontab(1), crontab(5)AUTHOR
Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
4th Berkeley Distribution 20 December 1993 CRON(8)