Try that, also when there is output from a cronjob like yours did, that writes to stdout,
output went to email - the email account for you on your linux box.
Other important point: NONE of your environment variables are available to the job run under cron.
#!/bin/bash
source /home/mccabe/.profile # or where you have the process setup code
echo "Is it 6:10pm?" > /path/to/somefile.txt
There are loads of ways to do this, above is just a simple example....
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hi,
I have a shell script which has a sql plus code and unix if else condition.
The file is located at root.I logged in as a root user and i have all permissions. I tried to set up a cron job so that the script need to run every minute.the script is running successfully without any problem. I... (2 Replies)
Hello everybody,
I'm trying to run a shell script in crontab file. But anyhow it's not getting executed. Following is the command that I've used in crontab.
30 07 * * * . ./.cronprofile;/om/reports/reportscripts/jitu/prod/prd_pre_to_post.sh
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I'm trying to run "SAR -i 60" under
#/var/spool/cron/crontabs/SYS
0,10,20,30,40,50 0-6 sh -c "/usr/lib/sa/sa1 60 10 &"
55 23 * 0-6 /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -i 900 -A
machine is not running above cron job under "sys" at all.
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hi everyone I'm newbie in this forum hope I can get some help here :)
I have a command in crontab that executed every 1 minute
sometime this command need more than 1 minute to finish
the problem is, the crontab execute this command although it's not finish processing yet and causing the system... (7 Replies)
Hi,
having problem running my cronjob, need the script to run every monday. And the error i'm getting is "No such file or directory", i've tried to change the env to /bin/bash and also /usr/bin/sh but both failed. Need help here. tq
0 0 * * 1 /bin/bash /home/omc/munir/raccli_rnc.sh
Rgds... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am developing 1 script in which I need to execute one cron job running in different server and my script is in different server.
so can any one help me to execute the cronjob set in different server.
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Hi,
I have a .ksh script which updates the database. The script is running fine manually but it is not running through cron.All the file permissions are fine.
The script contents are as below:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
ddate=`date +%Y%m%d`
echo $ddate
nohup sqlplus crm/crm @db_state_sync.sql >>... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to run a cronjob. But while doing so I am getting the following error message :-
can't open yourfile in /var/spool/cron/crontabs directory.
No such file or directory
How can I resolve this issue ?
Please help.
Thanks
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I have created a cronjob that successfully executes and among other thing runs aria2c to download several files and save them to a folder. However, since it executes as sudo, the downloaded folder is saved with those permissions.
Is there a way to execute the cronjob so that the downloaded folder... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
cron
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)