Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
I want to run a crontab job on solaris10.5. I have configured the crontab accordingly
10 * * * * /scripts/dbalter.pl >> /scripts/cronout.txt.However this does not work .Then I go to /var/mail/root and find an error in the output:
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From root@myserver Wed Feb 4 17:02:00 2009
Return-Path: <root@myserver>
Received: from myserver (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by myserver (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n14N20Rx027373
for <root@myserver>; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:02:00 -0600 (CST)
Received: (from root@localhost)
by myserver (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/Submit) id n14N20Is027371
for root; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:02:00 -0600 (CST)
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:02:00 -0600 (CST)
From: Super-User <root@myserver>
Message-Id: <200902042302.n14N20Is027371@myserver>
To: root@myserver
Subject: Output from "cron" command
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Length: 136

Your "cron" job on myserver
/usr/bin/perl/ /scripts/dbalter.pl

produced the following output:

sh: /usr/bin/perl/: cannot execute
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bash-3.00£ env
LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-1
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/sbin/sh
SSH_CLIENT=138.85.45.27 28249 22
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1
OLDPWD=/
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/2
USER=root
PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAIL=/var/mail//root
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-1
PWD=/var/adm
EDITOR=vi
TZ=US/Central
SHLVL=1
HOME=/
LOGNAME=root
SSH_CONNECTION=138.85.45.27 28249 10.25.30.190 22
LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-1
_=/usr/bin/env
#################################################################################################### ###################3
Also I want to mail the output to an outlook account.Please let me know about it.I really appreciate the help.
Regards
Sonu

Ok. The mail is telling you that /usr/bin/perl either doesn't exist or
you don't have permissions to execute it as this user.

Secondly, I believe you want to redirect stderr to your log also:

Code:

10 * * * * /scripts/dbalter.pl >> /scripts/cronout.txt 2>&1

Hi quirkasaurus,
Thank you for your reply.I have changed the crontab file to the following

* * * * * perl /scripts/dbalter.pl >> /scripts/cronout.txt 2>&1
How it is executing and sending the output to the file.However on strange thing. When I execute the perl command from the directory where it is stored , in our case it is scripts directory.The script dbalter.pl , outputs all the info .
eg
cd script
perl test.pl

.....here us the output

however if I execute it from the / root I give the command like
perl /script/dbalter.pl which is the same as the crontab configuration.However I get the output of the first two lines and the last two lines.I dont know what is wrong here.
Again Thank you for your help.
Sonu

not enough info, Sonu.

However, it looks like you need to fully qualify the path for the "cd" command.
That is, I'd do something like this:

Code:

cd /full_path/script

perl ./test.pl

.... coding it in such a way that it cannot be ambiguous.

Hi quirkasaurus,
Thank You for your reply.It was stupic on my part. I when I was reading /writing from/to the file I was not supplyin the full path . as soon as i though that I rushed in here to delet my post .....lolz.....however I found your post . again thank you for your help.Thank You
Regards
Sonu