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Hi.

I am running a script on solaris 10 and mailing it to my personal email.

the script is ran as user xxx, And i have edited the crontab for user xxx to run the script and mail it to my email account.

/network_check.sh | /usr/bin/mailx -s "Network Test" k454@hotmail.com

the sript runs fine outside of crontab and email the expected output.

i.e.
TUcron reported errors for server:
tjob_20090528-0300.log

the script touchs a few tmp log files and then cleans up.


However when i run the script with crontab it executes the script and

TUcron reported errors for server:
::::::::::::::
/var/tmp/logTU.txt
::::::::::::::
tjob_20090528-0300.log

the script finishes, however it doesnt remove any of the log files that were generated in the cleanup stage of the script. and it outputs

:::::::::::::

::::::::::::: at the point when the log files are being generated by the script in crontab dont know what it is referring to, Can anyone help

Please post the line from crontab, the contents of the script, and state which shell is running for user xxx.

the line from the crontab is:

03 17 * * * /network_check.sh | /usr/bin/mailx -s "Network Test" k454@hotmail.com

the sh i am running the script in is:
#!/bin/sh


in the script i log onto two servers checking logs. on the server i am running the scripts in its directory i create temporary log files, and remove them at the cleanup stage of the script, This mailx works perfect outside of crontab in crontab it seems to have some problem while it is creating the tmp .txt files.