Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:03:11 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: webmaster@freshtraxxx.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help running shell script from cron Message-ID: <4321961F.7000206@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <432186BD.1030702@freshtraxxx.com> References: <432186BD.1030702@freshtraxxx.com>
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Sandy Knight wrote:
> I am having trouble configuring my shell scripts to run under
> cron (user level, not root). I have set up a test.sh script which
> sends me an email, it works fine from the command line (ssh). the
> script is as follows:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "helloworld" | mail -s "helloworld" user@domain.com
> php /home/a_user/cron/test.php
>
>
> As you can see I am also trying to get a php script to run (this is my
> ultimate aim).
>
> My crontab is as follows:
>
> # /home/a_user
> #
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> PATH=/home/a_user/cron
> HOME=/home/a_user
> #
> #
> #minute hour mday month wday command
> #
> #
> */5 * * * * /home/a_user/cron/test.sh
>
>
> I have done the following:
>
> $ pwd
>
> /home/a_user
>
> $ crontab cron/myCronTab
>
> $ crontab -l
>
> {output - see above}
>
>
> Crontab is trying to run my script as I receive an email every 5
> minutes saying:
>
> /home/a_user/cron/test.sh: not found
>
>
> The permissions for the scripts are:
>
> $ ls -lt cron/
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 a_user vusers 322 Sep 9 12:27 myCronTab
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 a_user vusers 107 Sep 9 12:16 test.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 a_user vusers 99 Sep 4 17:58 test.php
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Sandy
For starters, assume cron to be totally ignorant about
paths. That means it doesn't know "whereis" anything,
etc. Hard-code things, IOW.
That said, and I may be a bit confused, but why try
to supersede whatever limited environment cron
may already have by setting more env vars?
Specifically in this case, try using a crontab with
no env vars set (specifically) and hard code all the paths.
Simply run "crontab -e" and put /usr/local/bin/php -q /path/to/my/script.php
there and see what happens.
HTH,
Kevin Kinsey
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