[Lvlug] Crontab & cron

[User Fwc]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, High Mobley wrote:

> How about specifying an absolute path to the cronout file?
>
Huh - That did it. Script modified to

#!/bin/sh
/bin/date >> /usr/home/fwc/temp/cronout

'cronout' file appended to every five minutes.

Now back to the main problem - taking apart logfiles with sh/ksh, sed, & 
awk.

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> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:51 PM, User Fwc <fwc at frankcole.lvcm.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, User Fwc wrote:
>>
>>> Playing with crontab and can't get the entry to execute.
>>>
>>> Cron running, top shows
>>> 734 root          1   8    0  3212K  1288K nanslp 1   0:00  0.00% cron
>>>
>>> crontab -l shows
>>> 0-59/5  *       *       *       *       /usr/home/fwc/temp/timestamps
>>>
>>> Crontabs file under
>>> /var/cron/tabs
>>> shows
>>> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
>>> # (/tmp/crontab.2PvlqUcoLo installed on Sun Mar  7 18:53:53 2010)
>>> # (Cron version -- $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.c,v
>>> 1.24.6.1 2008/11/25 02:59:29 kensmith Exp $)
>>> 0-59/5  *       *       *       *       /usr/home/fwc/temp/timestamps
>>>
>>> The 'timestamps' script is
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> date >> cronout
>>> and it will execute from the command line.
>>>
>>> Permissions are
>>> -rwxr--r--  1 fwc  fwc        27 Mar  7 18:13 timestamps*
>>>
>>> I've even tried restarting the machine.
>>> She no work. Ideas?
>>
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>> Replying to myself here.
>>
>> Looked at /var/log/cron with 'tail -f', crontab line shows as being run.
>> Mar  7 19:45:00 ibm /usr/sbin/cron[1175]: (fwc) CMD
>> (/usr/home/fwc/temp/timestamps)
>>
>> Also included path to 'date' in timestamps, no help.
>> #!/bin/sh
>> /bin/date >> cronout
>>
>> Out of ideas...
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