you getting "permission denied" or "No such file or directory" ?
How do you invoking the script when you run manually? Is it via using shell binary like
If yes, you probably dont have execute permission on the script. Please alter the permissions.
Hi
I have a file say xyz.sh, whose contents are as follows :
***************************
#! /bin/ksh
set -x
. /a.sh
. /b.sh
. /c.sh
*****************************
Now will this execute all the three process simultaneously or sequentially?
If it will process simultaneously, is... (3 Replies)
I am trying to setup cronjob and once I start to save it is not working. This is what I am getting after I executed crontab -e, I am not even getting the privious entry and I am running from root.
crontab -e
421
10 3 * * * /usr/sbin/logadm
?
:wq
?
Why is it not saving? Any input is... (4 Replies)
new to unix here, im learning how to schedule jobs with crontab. The following cron job runs under root but not under a test account i created.
50 11 * * 0 /usr/bin/banner "HELLO" > /dev/console
i have no idea with it isn't running under the test account but runs right on time when i create... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I want to run a crontab job on solaris 10.5. I have configured the crontab accordingly
10 * * * * /scripts/dbalter.pl >> /scripts/cronout.txt
However this does not work .Then I go to /var/mail/root and find an error in the output:
From root@myserver Wed Feb 4 17:02:00 2009... (1 Reply)
Guys,
I am beginer in unix. There is a cobol file with fixed-width. I want to read the total Line, Word and character count. I have tried with wc-l unix command, but it returns '0'.
Please advice me the correct command/steps to get the record count.
Thanks in advance. (4 Replies)
I have a perl script which Im planning to run every minute.
I have set the cron job as
* * * * * PATH= /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/lib; perl /dm2/www/html/isos/pre5.3/autoDownload.pl
I assume the script is executing every minute only because I see a entry like below when I do... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am facing a problem with crontab.I made an entry in crontab like this
05 07 * * * /afs2/cdwfullacc/current/exe/cdw_generate_special_klant.sh > /afs2/cdwfullacc/current/scratch/cdw_gen_cron.log
But job was not getting executed.
Entry in crontab was made with same user by whom... (4 Replies)
I am scheduling a task at regular intervals at seconds acuracy using crond and sleep command . my data in crontab file is as below:-
the above line is working fine when we are creating this crontab file before 00:05 min .
But when we are creating the crontab file at 00:05min , unable to... (10 Replies)
Hello gurus,
I am making what I think is a simple db2 call from within a shell script but I am having difficulty producing the desired
report when I run the script shown below from a shell script in cron. For example, my script and the crontab file setup
is shown below:
#!/bin/ksh
db2... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm unable to understand why the grep command in cronjob works intermittently
Expected output:
Grep command to look for a particular string with today's date and exit from infinite while loop else it must sleep for 5 mins
I'm using the following statement in my shell script, the... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: charlie87
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
cron-apt
CRON-APT(8) System Manager's Manual CRON-APT(8)NAME
cron-apt -- program to update the system using apt-get
SYNOPSIS
cron-apt [configfile]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the cron-apt command.
cron-apt is a program that uses the information in /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ as arguments to apt-get line by line in file order.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.
--help
Show summary of options.
CONFIGURATION
Configuration can be done by editing /etc/cron-apt/config and by adding rules to /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ The variables that you can set in
/etc/cron-apt/config is documented in the configuration example in /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/examples/config
From version 0.5.0 the optional FILTERCTRLM attribute is deprecated.
SEE ALSO
apt-get (1)
aptitude (1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Ola Lundqvist ola@inguza.com for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). This manual is
free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
CRON-APT(8)