Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,
I made few changes to the script (under the directory mentioned in crontab) scheduled under crontab and the problem is that crontab doesnt pickup those changes and somehow runs the old copy of the script from somewhere.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thats more a question of PATH...
when you type :
which <script>; what does the system return?

i ran <which db_daily_export.sh> and it gives back:

/usr/bin/which: no db_daily_export.sh in (/usr/sbin:/orahome9i/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/bin:/orahome9i/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/OPatch:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/ora9i/bin)

but i specify the full path of the script in the crontab entry as below:

00 01 * * 1-5 /peel/scripts/db_daily_export.sh /u09 2>&1 > /dev/null

but when i give full path like

[/peel/scripts]$> which /peel/scripts/db_daily_export.sh
it gives
/peel/scripts/db_daily_export.sh

You can't edit a crontab file. You need to use the crontab command. At this point, you should stop and restart cron so that it rereads the files.

to edit the cron file or to just list the content on standard output

Once you edit a cron file, you shouldn't need to bounce the cron process - it should pick up any changes straight away itself.

Jerry

Thats what i did .i edited the file using crontab -e and expect the cron job to pick up my changes when it runs the next time but somehow its not.