On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Mathias Haas wrote:
Oh my! What stupidity! Of course. I'm afraid sometimes my DOS-roots are
revealed... Thanks!
In general, you ought to be aware that cron sets up only a minimal
environment. If you want your scripts to run predictably then you
probably ought to ensure
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:56:49 +0100 (CET)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello guys! I have two questions about shellscripts:
Your second question seems to have been addressed, so here's something
for your first question...
1) I have a backup job that 'tar's a lot of files and currently I
Hello guys! I have two questions about shellscripts:
1) I have a backup job that 'tar's a lot of files and currently I redirect
all output of the job to a log. Tar unfortunately lists all directories
that it goes through, even if nothing is 'tar'ed in those directories. So
my logfile contains all
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello guys! I have two questions about shellscripts:
2) The same backup job - is written as a bash script, and it works
perfectly when run by hand, but it won't run as a cron job.
Are you using a full path in the shebang at the top of the script? Such as:
#!/bin/sh
Julien Gabel wrote:
Hello guys! I have two questions about shellscripts:
2) The same backup job - is written as a bash script, and it works
perfectly when run by hand, but it won't run as a cron job.
Are you using a full path in the shebang at the top of the script?
Such as:
#!/bin/sh
or
Hello guys! I have two questions about shellscripts:
2) The same backup job - is written as a bash script, and it
works perfectly when run by hand, but it won't run as a cron job.
Are you using a full path in the shebang at the top of the script?
Such as:
#!/bin/sh
or
Mathias Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As a reply to both answers, here's a script that wont' run:
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
echo start test.txt
Is it executable?
Does the last line have a newline at the end?
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It is executable and it didn't have a newline at the end, it does now -
but there's still no difference...
Do you have to do something to get FreeBSDs (4.6.2) cron to run
shellscripts?
..and I can still run the script by hand
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Mathias Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As
You might wanna check the users mailbox. Cron send mail on errors.
Drew
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 16:11, Mathias Haas wrote:
It is executable and it didn't have a newline at the end, it does now -
but there's still no difference...
Do you have to do something to get FreeBSDs (4.6.2) cron to
Mathias Haas wrote:
Julien Gabel wrote:
Hello guys! I have two questions about shellscripts:
2) The same backup job - is written as a bash script, and it works
perfectly when run by hand, but it won't run as a cron job.
Are you using a full path in the shebang at the top of the script?
Such
As a reply to both answers, here's a script that wont' run:
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
echo start test.txt
...and here is bash:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/etc] whereis bash
bash: /usr/local/bin/bash
this is /var/log/cron
Feb 24 19:20:00 p3-550 /usr/sbin/cron[27988]: (root) CMD
Julien Gabel wrote:
As a reply to both answers, here's a script that wont' run:
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
echo start test.txt
...and here is bash:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/etc] whereis bash
bash: /usr/local/bin/bash
this is /var/log/cron
Feb 24 19:20:00 p3-550 /usr/sbin/cron[27988]: (root) CMD
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:56:49 +0100 (CET)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello guys! I have two questions about shellscripts:
Your second question seems to have been addressed, so here's something
for your first question...
1) I have a backup job that 'tar's a lot of files and currently I
redirect
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