Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:29:22 +0100 (CET) From: "Julien Gabel" <jpeg@thilelli.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shell scripting woes. Message-ID: <52626.192.168.0.97.1077647362.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <403B952C.4060706@haas.se> References: <51804.193.14.163.194.1077641809.squirrel@mail.haas.se><403B9112.1080503@circlesquared.com><52540.192.168.0.97.1077646240.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> <403B952C.4060706@haas.se>
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>>>> Hello guys! I have two questions about shellscripts:
>>>> 2) The same backup job - is written as a bash script, and it
>>>> works perfectly when run by hand, but it won't run as a cron job.
>>> Are you using a full path in the shebang at the top of the script?
>>> Such as:
>>>
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> or
>>> #!/usr/local/bin/bash
>>And more generally, is the ${PATH} variable set correctly according
>>to all the tools/utility used along your script?
> As a reply to both answers, here's a script that wont' run:
> #!/usr/local/bin/bash
> echo start > test.txt
>
> ...and here is bash:
> [root@p3-550 /usr/local/etc]>> whereis bash
> bash: /usr/local/bin/bash
>
> this is /var/log/cron
> Feb 24 19:20:00 p3-550 /usr/sbin/cron[27988]: (root) CMD
> (/usr/local/etc/test.sh)
>
> This is the crontab entry:
> * * * * * /usr/local/etc/test.sh
> (At the moment, I have no shell parameters or other parameters in
> crontab, another crontab-job runs fine, but that's an executable
> file.)
Here it runs fine... but /usr/local/etc/test.sh is and must be
executable.
--
-jg.
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