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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell script doesn't get executed using crontab Post 74422 by vgersh99 on Thursday 9th of June 2005 01:55:26 PM
Old 06-09-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by radhika
I didn't think the problem was in environment variables- because the following works:
45 13 * * 1-5 $HOME/main_ics.sh >> $HOME/main_ics.log 2>>$HOME/error.log

but not when I change the cron to:
30 * * * * $HOME/main.sh > $HOME/main.log 2>$HOME/error.log
aren't they 2 different scripts?
 

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