Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All,

I have a crontab schedule and its executing a script that is calling another script and does not execute.

Crontab : ***** /test.sh

and in test.sh
/usr/local/file.sh

and in file.sh
webproxy -l 192.168.1.151

But when I run the script (test.sh) directly it works. But using crontab it does not work. I checked mail log and it says "command not found : webproxy"

Please suggest how to get this work from cron.

Regards
Shaan

This question is so common its in our FAQ.

webproxy probably isn't in cron's PATH. cron has a far more minimal PATH than a user login does.

You can call the command with the full path, i.e. /absolute/path/to/commandname, or set a PATH including the needed directory yourself, or run . /etc/profile as the first line in your script to get PATH set for you more like a shell login does.