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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Crontab not working Post 302946043 by RavinderSingh13 on Saturday 6th of June 2015 01:49:47 AM
Old 06-06-2015
Hello Junaid,

Just want to add here on Scott's comment, Cron has an own reserved syslog facility, so you should have a look into /etc/syslog.conf (or the equivalent file in your distro) to see where messages of facility cron are sent. Also you can check /var/spool/mail/user_name too for same. Let us know is this helps.


EDIT: Also while checking your script I found out that line if diff $TMP $TMP_FILE >/dev/null
I think what you are trying to do here to, not to display the differance in standard output, this command will redirect output to /dev/null so each time condition will be FALSE and if I am right here then you can use following then.

Here is an example which I have tested for same.
Input files:
Code:
cat chumm1
test test1
test
 
cat chumm2
test test1
test20


Now check this following command out.
Code:
if [[ -z $(diff chumm1 chumm2 2&>1 /dev/null)
then
       echo "There are differances.";
else
       echo "there is nothing";
fi

Output will be as follows.
Code:
There are differances.

Also why can't you go for a variable named email_users="x@chumma.com y@chumma.com z@chumma.com .

Code:
echo "Error occurred on `hostname`
        $ERROR
 * This is an auto-generated email *
        " | /bin/mailx -r "noreply@company.com" -s "Error occurred on `hostname`" $email_users < $ERROR

Could you please try same and let us know if that helps.


Thanks,
R. Singh
Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 06-06-2015 at 04:29 AM.. Reason: Added more clarification and found a little bug in user's script
 

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