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# 1  
Old 12-20-2011
Question crontab not working
Shell = ksh

Hi all,

I scheduled an automated job on my application server like below,

30 13 * * 1-5 $HOME/my_script.sh

However the script was not executed as expected. Any reason that may cause this to happen?
# 2  
Old 12-21-2011
change to:
30 13 * * 1-5 $HOME/my_script.sh > $HOME/my_script.log 2>&2
to get stdout and stderr output.
I have seen this before - where the environment is NOT set up correctly when running from crontab
You may need to set up expected environmental variables manually.
# 3  
Old 12-21-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by pmm
change to:
30 13 * * 1-5 $HOME/my_script.sh > $HOME/my_script.log 2>&2
to get stdout and stderr output.
I have seen this before - where the environment is NOT set up correctly when running from crontab
You may need to set up expected environmental variables manually.
Yeah, like you said, I defined some variables in that particular script. Probably these variables are not recognised by the Unix environment? So what should I do in such cases?

Manually define them and then export?
# 4  
Old 01-09-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by isaacniu
Yeah, like you said, I defined some variables in that particular script. Probably these variables are not recognised by the Unix environment? So what should I do in such cases?

Manually define them and then export?
On a slightly different path, how did you create the cronjob?
Did you set the shell environment variable to vi? Did you run crontab -e to modify the cronjob file?
# 5  
Old 12-21-2011
you need to take the logs for the cron job . Most likely its a env variable issue as cron does not set your env variables by default. You need to check the cronrun log file to find the details . Defile the exact path instead of defining a variable.($HOME/my_script.sh )


PHP Code:
30 13 * * 1-5 $HOME/my_script.sh >> /var/log/cronrun 2>&1
change to
30 13 * * 1-5 /USR/dir/my_script.sh >> /var/log/cronrun 2>&1 
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isaacniu
# 6  
Old 12-21-2011
If you are using any files or directories inside your my_script.sh, then use the absolute path ( from the root / )
# 7  
Old 01-09-2012
This type of problems occur mainly because of improper environment. Please provide the script lines so that we can dig further and suggest which environment variables to use..
Thanks
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