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Hi All.

I created a cronjob entry and for some reason it is not executing. The script that it is suppose to call sends me an email when it is done. When I run the job manually it executes fine. This how my cron entry looks:

00 14 * * * /home/oracle/scripts/bin/free_space/free_space.sh 2>$1

So it should run everyday at 2pm, correct?

Don't know why it is not running.

Thanks.

as always, check out the FAQ section and in particular crontab FAQ

Thanks for pointing me to that. Unfortunately, I didn't find a solution to my problem. The other crons on my system work fine but this one doesn't...and they are both setup the same way.

Contains a syntax error because of the "$1". Cron should have mailed the error message to the owner of the cron.

Did you actually mean to combine STDOUT and STDERR ?:

Code:

00 14 * * * /home/oracle/scripts/bin/free_space/free_space.sh 2>&1

OMG, that was just dumb of me. Can't believe I did that.

Ok, well I changed it to the following like you said:

34 9 * * * /home/oracle/scripts/bin/free_space/free_space.sh 2>&1

And when I tried to run it again, it still didn't run. I checked my mail and this is all I see for this job:

U 18 root@humboldt.fprc.o Thu Apr 9 09:34 24/1098 "Cron <oracle@humboldt> /home/oracle/scripts/bin/free_space/free_space.sh 2>&1"

Not sure what that means.

Thanks.

Ok, I got it to work.

I think it was trying to run it as root and it was failing when it tried to run sqlplus. So put some environment variables in the script and then it ran perfectly.

Thank you all for your help.