topic Re: script inquiry in Operating System - HP-UX

script inquiry

Pando — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:28:28 GMT

I have created a script for file processing. During manual execution, it did process right. However, when i put it in cron it did not process it correctly. Any comment on this?

Re: script inquiry

steven Burgess_2 — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:29:11 GMT

Hi Fernando

post the cron entry

Steve

Re: script inquiry

Con O'Kelly — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:41:14 GMT

Hi Fernando

Most likely you need to ensure you have set full paths for any commands in the script.
cron has a very limited PATH variable setting.

Cheers
Con

Re: script inquiry

Rajeev Tyagi — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:45:19 GMT

Furnando,

It may be a problem with PATH environment variable which is not sourced in the script during cron execution. Define your PATH environment variable in script.

Re: script inquiry

Pando — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:43:44 GMT

Hello Steven,

herewith is the cron entry:

0 16 * * * /test/parset/scripts/parset

Attached is the script i've made:

Re: script inquiry

Pando — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:55:56 GMT

Guys,

I also see in my directory a file #parset# along with the my script parset. what do you mean by this?

Re: script inquiry

Muthukumar_5 — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:15:59 GMT

Plz. post your script.
cat /test/parset/scripts/parset

HTH.

Re: script inquiry

Gordon Morrison_1 — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:46:45 GMT

There may be other environment variables set in your .profile besides $PATH that your script needs (without seeing the script it's hard to tell)
Try this for a cron entry:

0 16 * * * . /path/to/homedir/.profile;/test/parset/scripts/parset

Don't miss out the dot & space before the first command.

Re: script inquiry

Pando — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:27:39 GMT

Guys,

Please see attached script.

Re: script inquiry

Muthukumar_5 — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:47:32 GMT

what is ur entry for crontab.

Did you get any useful informations in cron log (/var/adm/cron/log )?

If you are able to execute in command line, then crontab informations will be the problem.

Edit your script second line as,
set -x
# To get debug symbols

Try to execute your script as,
crontab -e

* * * * * /tmp/log 2>&1

save and check log file. post that info.

hth.

Re: script inquiry

Bharat Katkar — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:13:41 GMT

Hi Furnando,
Just to confirm certain things:

Owner/group and permissions set to script.
Aslo try if this works:
0 16 * * * sh /test/parset/scripts/parset

Regards,

Re: script inquiry

Pando — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 01:43:43 GMT

Dear HTH,

Please see attached log file.

Re: script inquiry

Pando — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:56:01 GMT

The log files is very useful. Thanks to HTH!
I found that somewhere in the scripts, the path is not define.