Re: [CentOS] run bash from cron

2017-11-15 Thread m . roth
Mark Haney wrote: > On 11/15/2017 11:48 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Mark Haney wrote: >>> For the record, this was the only option to handle the task I'm having >>> issues with inside cron. >>> >> Yes. Do not trust your environment, running as a cron job, to be what >> you think it is. Try

Re: [CentOS] run bash from cron

2017-11-15 Thread Mark Haney
On 11/15/2017 11:57 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: In your crontab, try   env PATH="$PATH:/root/bin" bash filename.txt Maybe I wasn't terribly clear, for which I apologize.  I'm not running the text file itself from cron.  I'm running an ansible playbook from cron, which, as one of its tasks runs

Re: [CentOS] run bash from cron

2017-11-15 Thread Mark Haney
On 11/15/2017 11:48 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Mark Haney wrote: For the record, this was the only option to handle the task I'm having issues with inside cron. Yes. Do not trust your environment, running as a cron job, to be what you think it is. Try testing it by have your cron job, at the

Re: [CentOS] run bash from cron

2017-11-15 Thread Mark Haney
On 11/15/2017 11:55 AM, Noam Bernstein wrote: On Nov 15, 2017, at 11:48 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Mark Haney wrote: This might be a bit OT, but I've never had to do this before and what I've googled doesn't seem to be working. I have an ansible playbook that I'm working on that I want to

Re: [CentOS] run bash from cron

2017-11-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Mark Haney wrote: This might be a bit OT, but I've never had to do this before and what I've googled doesn't seem to be working. I have an ansible playbook that I'm working on that I want to run as a cronjob.  One task I'm having trouble with is where I have a text file

Re: [CentOS] run bash from cron

2017-11-15 Thread Noam Bernstein
> On Nov 15, 2017, at 11:48 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > Mark Haney wrote: >> This might be a bit OT, but I've never had to do this before and what >> I've googled doesn't seem to be working. >> >> I have an ansible playbook that I'm working on that I want to run as a >> cronjob. One task

Re: [CentOS] run bash from cron

2017-11-15 Thread m . roth
Mark Haney wrote: > This might be a bit OT, but I've never had to do this before and what > I've googled doesn't seem to be working. > > I have an ansible playbook that I'm working on that I want to run as a > cronjob.  One task I'm having trouble with is where I have a text file > with lines

Re: [CentOS] run bash from cron

2017-11-15 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 11:29:50 -0500 Mark Haney wrote: > This text file has to be 'executed' using 'bash filename.txt'. (Don't > ask why, I'm working on code that isn't mine.) Try adding #!/bin/bash as the first line of the text file and then run it with just the filename. -- MELVILLE THEATRE

[CentOS] run bash from cron

2017-11-15 Thread Mark Haney
This might be a bit OT, but I've never had to do this before and what I've googled doesn't seem to be working. I have an ansible playbook that I'm working on that I want to run as a cronjob.  One task I'm having trouble with is where I have a text file with lines like: rd.pl "blah blah"