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ok, there's a script i'm working on written in shell programming. #!/bin/sh


this script is written to spit out the contents of certain variables inside of it so the output looks something like this:


server01=89 server02=69 server03=89 server04=76


now, when i run this script from the command line, it outputs the expected results.

however, when i run it through cron, the fields are missing. i get something like this:

server01= server02= server03= server04=



any idea what could be causing this?


btw, in crontab, the script is set up to direct its output to a log file and it is in that log file that the fields are missing

check the permission of corn..
is it allowed to access all servers??

cron was the last result i had to employ to try to fix this thing.

there's a monitoring program called nagios that i was initially using to get the values of the variables. but it wasn't working. so i decided to use cron instead and write it to a file and then write another script to retrieve the info from the flatfile.

and even that isn't working.

the log file being written to has write/read/execute permission for everyonne. so i dont get why the fields just keep disappearing like this.

please post the script...

take a look at a FAQ: cron and crontab