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Old 05-14-2012
Shell Script runs good manually but not through Cron tab
Hello Every one,

I have a shell script which is running fine manually, but its giving me hard time when running tru cron job. Smilie.

Am using #!/usr/bin/ksh
Code:
>echo $SHELL
/usr/bin/ksh

Cron Job is as below, it execues but dosent do what i want it to do.
Code:
47 15 * * * /home/a1372/ATV/ATV_test.sh > /home/a1372/ATV/atv_daily_cron.log

When i run this manually it runs without fail, Please let me know what can be done here. Appreciate your help.
Last edited by Franklin52; 05-14-2012 at 05:22 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
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Old 05-14-2012
Probably a problem with PATH. Either . /etc/profile or set a proper PATH manually yourself.
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