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Crontab not running [message #223022]

Wed, 07 March 2007 04:04

prakashrao.k
Messages: 13
Registered: September 2006
Location: BANGALORE

Junior Member

I am trying to schedule a job in crontab -e but the entry is there

25 15 * * * echo "Hello world">>/opt/home/users/dse_dsa/frmt/xxx.txt

but it is not working and I have my user entry in cron.allow and cron.deny has follwoing entry

daemon
bin
smtp
nuucp
listen
nobody
noaccess

pl advise...

thnx in advance

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Re: Crontab not running [message #223025 is a reply to message #223022]

Wed, 07 March 2007 04:16

shahnazurs
Messages: 240
Registered: June 2005
Location: India

Senior Member

What is your UNIX flavour?

Once you entered in to your system just type

$mail

and paste the o/p?

Thanks,
Shahnaz.

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Re: Crontab not running [message #223194 is a reply to message #223022]

Wed, 07 March 2007 23:50

prakashrao.k
Messages: 13
Registered: September 2006
Location: BANGALORE

Junior Member

cron tab is working now but issue is in the script which is am scheduling ...coz script have some thing like this,
msg="Hello World"
echo $msg>>$XLOG/a.txt

Actulay,

echo $XLOGS
/opt/user/log

crontab is not understanding this but when I give like this it is working

working code

echo $msg >> /opt/user/log/a.txt

pl correct me...i cant go and change all the code but there should be some work arround for this ...

thnx in advance
Prakash

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Re: Crontab not running [message #247075 is a reply to message #223194]

Sat, 23 June 2007 10:38

shahnazurs
Messages: 240
Registered: June 2005
Location: India

Senior Member

try like below in your script then run ur cron job

echo $msg>>${XLOG}/a.txt

thanks.

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Re: Crontab not running [message #247077 is a reply to message #223022]

Sat, 23 June 2007 11:00

BlackSwan
Messages: 26766
Registered: January 2009
Location: SoCal

Senior Member

The blind leading the blind.

Th reality is that cron jobs do NOT go thru the same "logon process/sequence" that interactive session go through.
The typical .profile or .bash_profile files are NOT invoked implicitly by cron processes.
This can easily be demonstrated by adding the following command at the top of any cron script:
env | sort -o /tmp/myenv.out

After the cron job starts the do:
cat /tmp/myenv.out

to see which environmental variable exist & what their value is.

Any & all cron scripts MUST be responsible for ensuring the environmental variable are configured as needed by that script.

HTH & YMMV

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Re: Crontab not running [message #247366 is a reply to message #247077]

Mon, 25 June 2007 12:31

andrew again
Messages: 2577
Registered: March 2000

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25 15 * * * ~/cron_env; echo "Hello world">>/opt/home/users/dse_dsa/frmt/xxx.txt 2>&1
25 15 * * * /usr/bin/echo "Hello world">>/opt/home/users/dse_dsa/frmt/xxx.txt 2>&1

[Updated on: Mon, 25 June 2007 12:32]

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Re: Crontab not running [message #253816 is a reply to message #223194]

Tue, 24 July 2007 23:19

jawasev
Messages: 1
Registered: July 2007
Location: India

Junior Member

Hi,
Is this issue solved. Or may i try to help you.

Pls find something in Your Message:

msg="Hello World"
echo $msg>>$XLOG/a.txt

Actulay,

echo $XLOGS
/opt/user/log

Regards,
Jawahar.K

[Updated on: Tue, 24 July 2007 23:21]

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Re: Crontab not running [message #253828 is a reply to message #223022]

Wed, 25 July 2007 00:38

dilipece2001
Messages: 1
Registered: July 2007
Location: HYDERABAD

Junior Member

I suppose that this corntab is generally used for scheduling the jobs at UNIX level ...

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