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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I have a script which will cd into a directory based on current timestamp.
It will then do a grep and search for a condition. It's run on a cron job that runs every 30 minutes. So if it finds a match in 00, it sends out the contents of that grep to an alert and emails out. Now... (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have developed a file deletion script and scheduled it in cronjob to run daily at 5:00 AM. But the script is not running automatically any day. However when I run the script manually at any time, it runs successfully. This is how the cron looks like :
0 5 * * *... (5 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have an Ubuntu machine that I'd like to update automatically. I've written an expect script to run the aptitude package manager and update my packages. Essentially it does:
aptitude update && aptitude upgrade while answering "yes" at the appropriate time.
It works quite nicely when run... (4 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a .ksh script which updates the database. The script is running fine manually but it is not running through cron.All the file permissions are fine.
The script contents are as below:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
ddate=`date +%Y%m%d`
echo $ddate
nohup sqlplus crm/crm @db_state_sync.sql >>... (3 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi everyone I'm newbie in this forum hope I can get some help here :)
I have a command in crontab that executed every 1 minute
sometime this command need more than 1 minute to finish
the problem is, the crontab execute this command although it's not finish processing yet and causing the system... (7 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have script which is properly running but when i schedule it in cron it throws an error like :
Your "cron" job on retrprdapp1
/usr/bin/sh /retr/cron/ftp.sh 2>&1
produced the following output:
/retr/cron/ftp.sh: syntax error at line 17: `(' unexpected
line17 is
# Get list of... (10 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hey all
Found this forum googling for solutions. Great community this!
Im looking for help trying to run a php script every 20 minutes.
The script basically has to loop continuously forever but inexplicably hangs every 30 minutes or so. I have not been able to debug the script and find... (2 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a very basic perl script that attempts to find if a process is running. If the process is not running then the script is supposed to start the process. If I execute the script from command line it works fine as expected. However if the script is executed via cronjob, the script cannot find... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ypant
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
Im very new at working with unix and this problem I simply can not understand. I know there are a lot of threads about problems with shell scripts behaving differently when run from a terminal and from a cronjob. I have tried everything(almost) but I still havent cracked this problem.
Im... (15 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All
Some how, variables are not getting exported while running the script in cronjob. Variable value is coming blank. But the variables are geting the value when the same script I am running manually. Any idea why?
When running the script in cron-job
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Discussion started by: csaha
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