Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:17:16 +0100 From: Mathias Haas <mathias@haas.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shell scripting woes. Message-ID: <403B952C.4060706@haas.se> In-Reply-To: <52540.192.168.0.97.1077646240.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> 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>
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Julien Gabel wrote:
>>>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.)
/mathias
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