Thank you for the reply, migurus. I edited the crontab as you suggested and am getting the error:
It seems that the file is actually not being created when run as a cron job. When run manually from the command line ie:
the file gets created correctly.
I did an ls on the directory after the cron and it's not creating the file 'awsUserReportFile'....
I have a script running as a cron job in machine A . This script ftps some files everyday from machine A to machine B, and mails me about the status. It works fine for some days....and suddenly stops running. By viewing the log files, I see that the script itself was not invoked by cron on those... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
i am trying to automate a process and have to create a unix script like wise. I have a scenario in which i need to automate a file movement. Below are the steps i need to automate.
1. Check whether a file (Not Fixed name-Pattern search of file say 'E*.dat') is present in a... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have searched and searched google to do this and i want my websever to be able to run a php file everyday automatically. How do I go about doing this? Php is installed as an apache module not CGI.
Thank you! (3 Replies)
Hi everyone:
I'm trying to make a CRON job that will execute Fridays at 7am. I have the following:
* 7 * * 5
I've been studying up on CRON and I know to have this in a file and then "crontab filename.txt" to add it to the CRON job list.
The CRON part I believe I understand, but I would... (6 Replies)
Dear all,
I have the following case,, i need to transfer a group of file from one server to another ....when the size of any of these file reach a specified value (Ex: 10MB) i need to transfer it to another server ....my problem is that i dont know how to determine when the size of the file... (1 Reply)
The crontab entry looks like this...
29 13 * * * /usr/bin/mk-find --printf "%D\ %N\n" |
This is just a part of a long statement that has apostrophe in it. I will like to know why does it work at command prompt but fail if set as cronjob?
The error is...
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have following directory structure
Media (Inside media directory I have two folders namely videos and images)
-->videos
-->images
Inside media directory I have some video files with extension .mp4 and images with extension of .jpg and .jpeg
I want to write a cron job which will... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I beginner in unix, i have no idea how to set the script file using cron job every 5 second. I also want to execute automatically the output to text file.This is my script name countsys.sh and my textfile abc.txt. (6 Replies)
We need to configure autosys that when a job fails continously for 3 times, we need to call another job.
Is this possible in Autosys, or can anyone advice on the alternative. (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have written a cron job to automate the sftp of files using key authentication.
I wanted to add a timeStamp and name of file sent to a log file and append each these details to the same file each time files are sent and if possible include whether the files were sent successfully or not.... (3 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)