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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers ARP and Bonjour to build list of user devices Post 302993622 by drysdalk on Sunday 12th of March 2017 10:22:11 AM
Old 03-12-2017
Hi,

In general, if a command works at the shell prompt, it should work if that same command is put in a script that is run by that same shell. What might be happening here perhaps is that paths when running via crontab might not be what you'd expect.

If you try in your script putting full absolute paths to all binaries and files, does it then work OK via a crontab entry ? That's probably the first thing to try, since if this approach is working for you at the command line, it should (generally speaking) work in a script as well.

Also make sure the shebang line at the top of your script matches the shell you expect to use to run the script (so #!/bin/bash for Bash, for instance), in case there is a difference between your own shell and the system default shell, or the shell the user is running as in cron.
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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

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rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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