On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@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=`/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 * * * /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 ? -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
