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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Command syntax error in cron Post 303015417 by migurus on Wednesday 4th of April 2018 02:59:40 PM
Old 04-04-2018
Command syntax error in cron

SCO OSR 507, user's shell is old Bourne sh
The same command is OK when run using now, but fails when run in cron, see below:

1) using now, see how it worked and I see resulting DT=2018 in the mail
Code:
 
 $ at now
{ dt=`/usr/gnu/bin/date '+%Y'`; echo "DT=$dt"; }
job 1522867418.a-6605:0 at Wed Apr  4 11:43:38 2018
$ mail
SCO OpenServer Mail Release 5.0.7  Type ? for help.
"/usr/spool/mail/test": 1 message 1 new
>N  1 cron@test.testdo Wed Apr  4 19:43   19/639   Output of one of your cron 
& 
Message  1:
From cron Wed Apr  4 18:43:43 2018
Return-Path: <cron>
... snipped for brevity ...
Subject: Output of one of your cron jobs
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 11:43:42 -0700 (PDT)
Status: R
 DT=2018

2) using cron
Code:
 
 $ crontab -l
 44 11 * * * { dt=`/usr/gnu/bin/date '+%Y'`; echo "DT=$dt"; }
 $ mail
 $ mail
SCO OpenServer Mail Release 5.0.7  Type ? for help.
"/usr/spool/mail/test": 1 message 1 new
>N  1 cron@test.testdo Wed Apr  4 19:44   19/696   Output of one of your cron 
& 
Message  1:
From cron Wed Apr  4 18:44:01 2018
Return-Path: <cron>
Received: (from cron@localhost)
...
Subject: Output of one of your cron jobs
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 11:44:00 -0700 (PDT)
Status: R
 /bin/sh: syntax error at line 1: `end of file' unexpected
 
*************************************************
Cron: The previous message is the standard output and standard error
     of the following cron job, executed on your behalf:
{ dt=`/usr/gnu/bin/date '+
&

Please let me know what can be the problem here
Thanks in advance
 

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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)
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