Shell Programming and Scripting

Solaris 2.5.1

I have written a shell script that creates a tar file and then ftp's the file to an other box. The shell script perfectly executes when run manually through terminal. But when i schedule it through cron, its not executing and showing exit code RC =1 in cron log.

I have added the 2 lines cd / and . . profile per the research i did, but still wont execute when schduled in cron

Code:

#!/bin/sh

cd /

.  . profile

{
   create tar file  function
}

{  
   ftp function
}

Appreciate if anyone can point what is wrong and throw a few lines..

Venu

I would think that you'd want to source the profile from your home directory; I doubt that one exists in /

Try:

Code:

. $HOME/.profile

Or use the absolute path to .profile if it's not in your home directory.

First thing I'd say, is it the tar creation or the ftp that fails to run under cron?

Where are you expecting the cron job to get the ftp login credentials from?

Thanks to everyone for watching this thread. i found a wiki on this website detailing cron and how to troubleshoot.

Problem solved

Thanks