[Lvlug] Crontab & cron

[High Mobley]

I think with cron, you don't get the full shell environment, so the
working directory is probably not your home directory.  It would be
interesting to see where the output was going before you specified the
full path.  Maybe try this:

locate cronout

High Mobley
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On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:17 PM, User Fwc <fwc at frankcole.lvcm.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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