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Hi All,

Pardon me if this turns out to be a dumb question. But I am trying to schedule a cron job for a my script which takes input options. So an entry in crontab would be something like:

Code:

1 * * * * run_report.sh -o out.csv -m monthly -e somename@email.com > cron_output.log 2> cron_error.log

note that after intial cron job time details the next part i.e.

Code:

run_report.sh -o out.csv -m monthly -e somename@email.com

is what my script needs inputs to run but cron complains abou options as it misunderstands it to be its own options. How do it get around this?

You help much appreciated.

Thanks,

What Operating System do you have and which Shell (e.g. ksh, bash, Posix etc.) should be used to run the script?

Can you show us the script?
What is the absolute path to find the script?
Should the script be run as any particular user?

Where are you seeing "option not allowed" ?

Is this a root cron or one for a named user?
Are you logged in as root or a named user?
If this is a named user, does that user have permissions to use cron?

Why do you not have absolute path(s) to files? ie.

Code:

/home/truharsh/run_report.sh

cron does not login to your home directory when it runs your scripts

why not just put

Code:

run_report.sh -o out.csv -m monthly -e somename@email.com

into another script and run that from the cron?