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Subject: Re: Having problems running shell script from crontab
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On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:21:51 +0200
Kaya Saman wrote:
> The strange thing is that if I run this script manually 
> /root/java_restart/java_restart.sh it works fine and does what it's 
> supposed to do. 

The commonest reason for scripts that that work from a terminal
failing under cron is that the environment isn't set-up correctly.
Usually it's PATH that's missing or incomplete.