Shell Programming and Scripting

i have a simple script that ftp a file out, manually running it works fine.

#!/bin/sh
ftp 152.226.69.48 << cmd
bin
get applicant_vw.txt
quit
cmd

but when I cron it,

14 9 * * * /opt/home/XXX/XXX/dailyjob.sh > /opt/home/XXX/XXX/cronlog.txt

seems that it was executed because i can see the cronlog.txt but nothing in it.

anyone knows why ?

thanks

Add a couple of lines to the script that creates and writes to a well known file that the program is running.

echo $PATH >/opt/home/XXX/XXX/debug.txt
which ftp >>/opt/home/XXX/XXX/debug.txt

Hi beisaikong,

Once add your file into cron table then you should compile the cron table then only it will take to execute your new added script.

so check it out the below command to add the new script and execute the script via cron.

$ crontab -l > crontxt.txt
Created new txt in your current directory then you can add you script and save it the txt file.
$ crontab < crontxt.txt
Moved the updated txtcron file into cron table file.
$ . ./crontab
compile the updated cron table.
or you can use the below command also.
or . ./crontxt.txt

then you see the output of the file in correct time of script running. if you want see the out put of the file you can create on log file and redirected the output of the script to the log file. then you can see the log file.

let me know if you have further querys.


Thanks,
Siva.P
Bangalore