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# 1  
Old 09-07-2011
crontab is not working!!
I can run manually script of ntopdump.sh but crontab can't run this script very five minutes.
Code:
# crontab -l
*/3 * * * * root sh /root/ping.sh
*/5 * * * * root sh /root/ntopdump.sh
#

Code:
# pwd
/root
# ls -l
total 88
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root  1645 Jun 14 19:01 anaconda-ks.cfg
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root  4096 Jun 14 16:05 Desktop
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 42604 Jun 14 19:01 install.log
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root  5077 Jun 14 19:00 install.log.syslog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    14 Aug 26 17:20 IPADDR.txt
-rwx--x--x 1 root root   102 Aug 26 17:20 ntopdump.sh
-rwx--x--x 1 root root    53 Aug 26 17:20 ping.sh
#

Code:
# cat ntopdump.sh 
wget -O ntop-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H:%M).php "http://127.0.0.1:3000/dumpData.html?language=php&view=short"
#

# 2  
Old 09-07-2011
what is your crontab log says ?

check in /var/log/
# 3  
Old 09-07-2011
Everthing seems fine ? isn't it? Time priod is right. There is no error messages.
I added !/bin/bash first line of this script but reason didn't change.

Code:
# tail -f  /var/log/cron
Sep  7 13:20:01 argela crond[17306]: (root) CMD (root sh /root/ntopdump.sh)
Sep  7 13:21:01 argela crond[17314]: (root) CMD (root sh /root/ping.sh)
Sep  7 13:24:01 argela crond[17324]: (root) CMD (root sh /root/ping.sh)
Sep  7 13:25:01 argela crond[17332]: (root) CMD (root sh /root/ntopdump.sh)
Sep  7 13:25:39 argela crontab[17339]: (root) LIST (root)
Sep  7 13:27:01 argela crond[17347]: (root) CMD (root sh /root/ping.sh)
Sep  7 13:30:01 argela crond[17358]: (root) CMD (root sh /root/ntopdump.sh)
Sep  7 13:30:01 argela crond[17359]: (root) CMD (root sh /root/ping.sh)
Sep  7 13:33:01 argela crond[17396]: (root) CMD (root sh /root/ping.sh)
Sep  7 13:35:01 argela crond[17441]: (root) CMD (root sh /root/ntopdump.sh)

What is the main problem.!!!!!!!!!!!! Smilie

Code:
# cat ntopdump.sh 
!/bin/bash
wget -O ntop-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H:%M).php "http://127.0.0.1:3000/dumpData.html?language=php&view=short"
#

# 4  
Old 09-07-2011
Code:
#!/bin/bash

# 5  
Old 09-07-2011
Is this typo ?

!/bin/bash -- Missing #
# 6  
Old 09-07-2011
My friends, script isn't working on crontab but it is working manually.

Everythink seems fine but what is the problem!
# 7  
Old 09-07-2011
If it isn't the missing # at the start of the shebang line then it could be that wget isn't on crontab's path.
try substituting the full path to the wget binary
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