Solaris

use back tick and check it once again

Code:

dt1=`perl -e 'use POSIX;print strftime "%d-%m-%Y-%M",localtime time-86400;'`

After this change, the script is getting executed from Crontab.

Now I want to schedule the script to run at 00:01 hours every night.

So I set up the crontab as

1 0 * * * /sbin/sh /var/tmp/rotate.sh 1>/tmp/out.txt 2>&1

To test, I am changing the system date using the following command

date 021100002012

But the cron does not get executed & there is no error in the out.txt.

However if I change the crontab to

3 0 * * * /sbin/sh /var/tmp/rotate.sh 1>/tmp/out.txt 2>&1

& then change the system date, the cron job gets executed & again for the next iteration, I was required to change the cron entry to

5 0 * * * /sbin/sh /var/tmp/rotate.sh 1>/tmp/out.txt 2>&1

as the cron did not fire at 3 minutes past 0th hour & there were no errors in the out.txt file.

The cron deamon will still have the old clock. You will need to stop it. It may be defined in /etc/inittab as respawn in which case it will start a new one for you.




Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK

After re-starting the cron, it seems to be working fine. I will monitor the execution of cron job for few days.

Thanks to everyone for the help provided.