Shell Programming and Scripting

From post #12:

Code:

Output for ls -lad /home/myfolder/abc.sh :
 
-rw-rw-rw- 1 myname myname 296 Jul 4 19:06 /home/myname/abc.sh

The script is not executable. There should have been an error in unix mail for the owner of the cron.

The way you are running scripts from the command line by starting a new shell with a script name as a parameter sh scriptname rather than ./scriptname or /home/myfolder/abc.sh is masking the problem. You were not typing the same command as you gave to cron.

The current permissions are 555 (i.e. not executable by anybody, and that includes cron). You need to make your scripts executable if you want to run them from cron:

Code:

chmod 755 /home/myfolder/abc.sh

Thanks Methyl, The script is now working through cron.
the issue was with the permissions on the script. After providing permissions- chmod 755 the issue got resolved.

How were you ever able to execute your script if it was set 555? You can't have been running it with ./scriptname in the shell either.

@Corona688
Didn't pick up the way the O/P runs scripts until post #14 , though the permissions were in post #12 (my bad). I've just highlighted the command in post #14 because it was in the middle of a sentence.
I concentrated on the fact the the original script didn't execute anything except the echo. It was of course the redirect on the crontab line which would have created the empty log whether or not the script actually ran.
Obviously the O/P doesn't see unix mail because if the original cron has been running for a couple of days there will be quite a few emails (288 per day)!