Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:44:29 -0700 From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question Message-ID: <BANLkTikJLpb-PQKWbuyX1F7GWzW1jMpirA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinCFMqGBx0jkbRH-J03wNkQaPOo7Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTimD4DaYtvDmiJ4=qaj3CNsKr=XHNQ@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTinCFMqGBx0jkbRH-J03wNkQaPOo7Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 13:25, pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> wrote: >> All, >> >> I've googled a bunch, read some freebsd.org docs, and just can't >> figure this out. >> >> I have a script that should read the current date into a variable, >> append the time/date stamp at the beginning of the file created with >> the date in the variable, do a bunch of cURL stuff, then append a >> time/date stamp at the end of the file. >> >> It works if I run it manually, but not from cron. >> >> Here are the batchfile and the cron entry: >> >> ----------begin script---------- >> dt=3D`/bin/date "+%Y-%m-%d"` >> /bin/date > /root/$dt-external1.txt >> /usr/local/bin/curl -K /root/urls.txt >> /root/$dt-external1.txt >> /bin/date >> /root/$dt-external1.txt >> ----------end script---------- >> >> ----------begin crontab---------- >> 15 12 * * * =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0/root/do-curl.sh >> ----------end crontab---------- >> >> I'm doing all of this as root, as you can see. >> >> The job launches - I can see an entry for cURL in top - but no file in /= root. >> >> I've tried several variations on the first line of the script, but I'm >> getting nowhere, though I'm sure it's something stupidly simple that >> I'm missing. >> >> What am I missing? > > #!/bin/sh ? Definitely closer... Per the handbook, I added SHELL=3D/bin/sh to crontab, and I also added #!/bin/sh as the first line in the script But, while a file is being created, it's just /root/-external1.txt not /root/2011-06-13-external1.txt Kurt
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