Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a script (/home/admin/run_bkup.sh) that I can run manually to kick off an executable job. I want to run it in crontab, but it doesn't work.

Here's the script:

Code:

shell=/bin/bash
today=$(date +"%m-%d-%y")
/opt/CPsuite-R77/fw1/bin/upgrade_tools/upgrade_export mgt-svr-bkup-$today << EOF
y
n
EOF

It would be easier to just add the executable job to crontab, but the executable job is interactive, requiring a response to two questions.

Here is the crontab entry:

Code:

00  6  *  *  1   /home/admin/run_bkup.sh

What do I need to do to get this job to run in crontab?

Try specifying full paths for all the commands in the script.

/opt/CPsuite-R77/fw1/bin/upgrade_tools/upgrade_export is the full path.

Source the user environment before executing in cron.
Check the $HOME directory for environment files and/or env command.

Also the syntax defines shell variable as /bin/bash for some usage.
I do not see it being used further in the program, but one can only the guess what is upgrade_export, perhaps it is used in it.

You would want to define a magic cookie in your script !#/bin/bash as the first line.

Further on, i believe that export can be done from managment of checkpoint fw or ?
You might want to notice the post under this thread, since people are having these types of issues all the time.

date is not full path. If you told us WHAT "doesn't work" you might get a more meaningful answer - if the references at the bottom of this page don't suffice.

mgt-svr-bkup-$today is not an absolute pathname either. There is no reason to believe that your cron job is going to run in the directory in which you invoked the crontab utility to add your cron job to the schedule.

- Thx, Peasant, but I don't know what this means.
- RudiC, thanks for the response. There is no output that I can see.

- Don, thx for the response. I didn't think

Code:

mgt-svr-bkup-$today

was a file that required an absolute path. The output file from the executable job is

Code:

mgt-svr-bkup-$today.tgz

. I assumed

Code:

mgt-svr-bkup-$today

was a parameter passed to the job to be used when creating the output file. If I'm wrong, and it is the file (without the .tgz extension), then this should work? -

Code:

shell=/bin/bash
today=$(date +"%m-%d-%y")
/opt/CPsuite-R77/fw1/bin/upgrade_tools/upgrade_export /opt/CPsuite-R77/fw1/bin/upgrade_tools/mgt-svr-bkup-$today << EOF
y
n
EOF