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# 8  
Old 07-20-2016
You didn't overlook the obvious - adapt the cron start time?
# 9  
Old 07-22-2016
Any other ideas on this one if its not the environment? This is the final hurdle I need to jump to close out a project.

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Apologies RudiC....I didn't see there was a pg 2. I've been adjusting the start times of the cron jobs. I've gone as far as substituting the expect script with a simple bash file creation script just to confirm the cron was running correctly. The job will run with a bash script but not the expect.
# 10  
Old 07-22-2016
As proposed before, check if the cron job is running at all. You may want to start with a very simple approach, e.g. a mere pwd command, and check its output.
# 11  
Old 07-22-2016
OK, put the expect stuff into a bash script...
# 12  
Old 07-22-2016
I'll give that a shot now. In researching it looks like the syntax is a little different but I'll work through it and update. Thank you for the help btw.
# 13  
Old 07-22-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by KingT617
I picked up that line with the TH in the path from another thread in a futile attempt to resolve this. With your suggested changes the script still doesn't run via cron and now it no longer runs on the command line and produces the following output:
Code:
 invalid command name "env"
    while executing
"env PATH "/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin""
    (file "./expect.sh" line 2)

That is not the code I suggested. Try 'setenv' like it was shown.
# 14  
Old 07-22-2016
I've tried using bot env and setenv and both have the same outcome. I'm questioning that it's an environment problem as both the cron job and the command line reference the /usr/bin/ directory
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