Alister Waller wrote:
> I have a small script to automate some data import and export from our
> software. All it does is create a couple of environment variables and then
> run a cobol program.
> I can run this script manually without any problems whatsoever but it does
> not want to run from a cron job.
> any idea what could be causing this or what i should be looking at?
How do you know it won't run?
Can you capture the output from the cronjob and see what's going on?
Also, remember that the cron environment will differ wildly from
the shell in which you normally run cobol .... ensure you've duplicated
that environment faithfully. Perhaps the PATH is wrong or there are
other env variables you need to define.
Cheers
Rick
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