topic crontab with csh and sh scripts in Operating System - HP-UX

crontab with csh and sh scripts

Erwin Inauen — Wed, 18 May 2005 04:49:20 GMT

Hi all
I submit a job in crontab as user A and get a nice mail when the script has finished successfully or when it aborts. Submitting a job as user B, I do not get a mail. How come? I don't use any redirection in the script or the crontab entry (such as >/dev/null 2>&1).

Thanks
Erwin

Re: crontab with csh and sh scripts

Simon Hargrave — Wed, 18 May 2005 04:53:12 GMT

Is user B allowed to run cron jobs? (are they listed in /var/adm/cron/cron.allow)

Can user B actually receive emails?

# echo test | mail userA
# echo test | mail userB

Can you see evidence the job ran in the cron log /var/adm/cron/log

Can you see any evidence of an attempt to email in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log?

Re: crontab with csh and sh scripts

Alex Lavrov. — Wed, 18 May 2005 04:55:06 GMT

Try to use it and redirect all the output (stdout/stderr) to some log file and check if there are error messages.

Probably some permissions issue and under user B script fails to run.

Alex.

Re: crontab with csh and sh scripts

Muthukumar_5 — Wed, 18 May 2005 05:04:28 GMT

Before doing cron schedule, do it manually.

echo "hai erwin from $USER @ $(hostname)" | mail userb

It is good thing to redirect jobs log into /dev/null or some log file.

hth.

Re: crontab with csh and sh scripts

harry d brown jr — Wed, 18 May 2005 06:06:53 GMT

Does USERB have a .forward file in their home directory?

Can you post the mail command you are issuing (& the crontab entry)?

live free or die
harry d brown jr

Re: crontab with csh and sh scripts

Erwin Inauen — Wed, 18 May 2005 06:08:29 GMT

Thanks for your various replies. I've run the job by hand and it work well. Also, user B has an entry in at.allow and cron.allow files.
Last but not least, this is the entry in the cron log:
> CMD:/pp11/sybase/dba/permissions/permsfile.sh
> sybpp 9029 c Wed May 18 09:35:00 METDST 2005
< sybpp 9029 c Wed May 18 09:35:01 METDST 2005 rc=127
The script is definitely being executed. Our Sysadmin assures that user B can receive mail.

Rgs,
Erwin

Re: crontab with csh and sh scripts

Erwin Inauen — Wed, 18 May 2005 06:13:58 GMT

Hi all
I just found the problem: user B is an alias to, say user C; user C receives the messages, but not user B.
Thanks for your help again, maybe I'll have more followup questions later on to cron that I'll post in a separate thread.

Rgs,
Erwin

Re: crontab with csh and sh scripts

Gopi Sekar — Wed, 18 May 2005 07:31:29 GMT

check whether MAILTO variable is given in the crontab. define this variable to the email id where you want outputs to be sent to