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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script fails to run properly when run from CRONTAB Post 302882157 by rusman on Saturday 4th of January 2014 05:14:48 PM
Old 01-04-2014
Path doesn't matter as I am using full path anyway. This is a script for NetBackup (enterprise backup application) to run a command to gather data. The command (nbdeployutil) is a two step command. You run it first for it to gather the data and then again to generate a report. I wish I could just run it once, but it doesn't have that feature. Here is my whole script.

Code:
#!/bin/bash

#This script runs the NBU NBDEPLOYUTIL command
#to generate capacity based output in the
#form of Front End (or Protected Data) Terrabytes per site.
#This script works with NBU version 6.5.x


usermail=(users email address goes here)
hostname=`hostname`
date=`date +%m%d%Y`

#Execute the NBU nbdeployutil command and send output to a file as this command
#is a two-part command. 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbdeployutil --gather | /bin/grep nbdeployutil > /tmp/nbdeployutil_temp.out

#Set the mail_report variable by grepping out the command to run from the temp file
mail_report=`/bin/grep report /tmp/nbdeployutil_temp.out | /bin/cut -d':' -f2`

#Execute the 'report' portion of nbdeployutil and send output to a file.
/bin/echo `$mail_report` > /tmp/nbdeployutil_temp_rpt.out

#Pull the proper information out of the temp file.
mail_report=$(/bin/cat /tmp/nbdeployutil_temp_rpt.out | /bin/awk '{print $15}')

#Mail the file to the specified users.
(/bin/uuencode "$mail_report" "$mail_report") | /bin/mailx -s "$hostname NBDEPLOY $date" $usermail
exit 0

Again, it seems to fail to execute this line properly when run from cron.
Code:
/bin/echo `$mail_report` > /tmp/nbdeployutil_temp_rpt.out

The only thing special about this is that it is executing a variable. I'm open to better ways to do this if it works. If i knew perl that would probably be that better way ;(.
 

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