Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:37:49 +0200 From: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Having problems running shell script from crontab Message-ID: <4F084AAD.3050301@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120107132234.31d04a1c@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <4F0838DF.40006@gmail.com> <20120107132234.31d04a1c@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On 01/07/2012 03:22 PM, RW wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Would it be possible to elaborate? I just fixed my script by altering some parts to Yuri's suggestions: #!/usr/local/bin/bash ntstat=`netstat -ap tcp | grep 8180 | sed -n '1p'` port="8180" #echo $ntstat #echo $port if [[ $ntstat =~ $port ]]; then echo "Output of Netstat command $ntstat port number $port" > /root/java_restart/java_restart.log; else sleep 60; /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tomcat6 restart; fi with crontab now looking like so: 0,30 * * * * /usr/local/bin/bash /root/java_restart/java_restart.sh Sleep works fine but tomcat still isn't getting restarted...... In terms of paths this is what I'm doing: I'm in a FreeBSD jail logged in by - #jexec <jail> tcsh which gets me in as root. Crontab is being run as root so paths should be the same no? Hmm..... am puzzled! Kayahome | help
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