Re: CRONTAB JOB

make sure cron daemon is running

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Paul Heely wrote:

> Check the cron/crontab man pages to see what environment is setup for jobs
> run from cron. You can also re-direct any output from you script to a file,
> i.e.
> /opt/qqad/sql/QQAD_backupscript.sh > /some_file 2>&1
> This should send STDOUT and STDERR to /some_file.
>
> Inside your script you can also show you current environment, env, printenv,
> set, etc. The output can then be re-directed to a file.
>
> We had an issue on AIX where the environment that cron run jobs used was
> different than the one you got just by logging in.
>
> --
> Paul
>
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> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have a crontab job but this job never started, I have no idea what's
> > wrong, actualy i am not a unix person, here is the job:
> > cron job name is : qqad.cron
> > 04 17 * * 1-5 /opt/qqad/sql/QQAD_backupscript.sh
> > and here is the QQAD_backupscript.sh (in /opt/qqad/sql)
> >
> > sqlplus system/manager_at_QQAD @COLD_BAKUP_FOR_QQADha.SQL; cold_back.sql
> is
> > generated by COLD_BAKUP_FOR_QQADha.SQL
> >
> > @/opt/qqad/sql/cold_back.sql;
> >
> > If I run the job manualy it is going OK but crontab never start.
> > Any Idea??
> >
> >
> > Hamid Alavi
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