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Old 05-28-2012
Script runs fine manually but not in crontab
Hello Guys,

I have scratched my head alot on this but couldn't find clue what's wrong. Can you please help me with this? My problem is as following.

1) When I manually execute following script it runs successfully with below output.

Code:
bash-3.00# more smssend
#!/bin/bash
echo -e "<Request MO="SMPPSMS-local" Operation="Set" Origin="PPAS">
<MSISDN>923455858076</>
<Version>1</>
<Message>ivr ocmp-bre is down, restarting bre
</>
</Request>"|/opt/EABfds/bin/FDSRequestSender -u sdpuser -p sdpuser 

bash-3.00# ./smssend 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<Response>
<Result>Ok</Result>



But when I run the same script through crontab it does not run.

Code:
bash-3.00# crontab -l|grep smssend
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /export/home/fdsuser/IVR/smssend

Can somebody please identify what is wrong?

Regards,
Umar
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 05-28-2012 at 08:41 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 05-28-2012
all of your script(smssend) is this?
what is the "</Response>", is the output after executed the your script by crond ?
# 3  
Old 05-28-2012
Hello ygemici,

Yes, smssend is all of my script.

In my earlier post "</Respone>" was a typo in crontab entry. Correct one is as below.

Code:
bash-3.00# crontab -l|grep smssend
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /export/home/fdsuser/IVR/smssend



When I execute smssend manually, below is the successful response.

Code:
bash-3.00# ./smssend 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<Response>
<Result>Ok</Result>

I am guessing crontab is unable to run my script because its unable to parse above output. But I am not sure though.

Regards,
Umar


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 05-28-2012 at 08:42 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 4  
Old 05-28-2012
maybe your script runs fine ?
did you check the crond logs?
Code:
..........
crond[XXXX]: (root) CMD (XXXXXXXXXX)

and can you try like this ?
Code:
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /export/home/fdsuser/IVR/smssend >> /tmp/smssend_results

# 5  
Old 05-28-2012
I think this is to do with your profile..
try to source your .profile or any other custom profile in your smssend script
# 6  
Old 05-28-2012
Couldnt find crond logs on my machine and doing below also didn't help.

Code:
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /export/home/fdsuser/IVR/smssend >> /tmp/smssend_results

# 7  
Old 05-28-2012
check the permission on file you are trying to execute from cron. sometimes it gives lots of pain.
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