Cron Job to enable printer

[Kelly M_1]

Hi I am very much a HP UX newbie. We are having issues with printers disabling themselves do to network issues. To get around this have tried to setup a cron job found in this http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1245852100886+28353475&threadId=299627 forum post.

It does not seem to be working and when I do a ./scriptname I get the error Execute permission denied. I'm not sure where to go from here.

[Mark S Meadows]

Hi Kelly,

What are the actual permissions on the script file you have created, i.e. :

/home/markme# ll scriptname
-rwxr-xr-x 1 markme users 20 Jun 24 15:15 scriptname
gba70102:/home/markme#

You need execute permissions on file in order to execute it.

Regards,

Mark

[Ganesan R]

Hi Kelly,

Error indicates that, you donot have execute permission on the script. Are u running the script as root user?

Run this command and try to execute the script.

# chmod u+x scriptname

or

# chmod 755 scriptname

[gstonian]

'chmod' the file

'man chmod' for more info on this command :)

[TTr]

The "scriptname" must have its execution bit set. Type "ll scriptname" to see its permission mode and "chmod 700 scriptname" to set it.

Read the man page for ll "man ll" to see an explanation about permission modes. They are the -rwxr-xr-x that you see in the directory listing with the "ll" command.

[Kelly M_1]

Wow lots of great help on this forum. I have set the script permissions to make it executable. It now runs when I type ./scriptname Does that mean it will run as a cron job now?

Thanks for the quick responses

[Mark S Meadows]

Kelly,

It depends upon what is in the actual script ! You will need to ensure that the path for any commands is in included, i.e. set the PATH variable - this often gets overlooked :

#!/sbin/sh
PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin
~
~

Regards,

Mark

[Sunny123_1]

Hi

Did you make an entry in cronjob???
If no then make entry for scriptname in cron.

#crontab -e
10 * * * * <script>

It will run script after every 10 minute.

Regards
Sunny

[Kelly M_1]

I added the following line to crontab -e

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/bin/cron/scriptname 2>&1

[TTr]

Cron sends the output of every job it runs in an email. Check root's email to see if there are any errors in the execution of the script.
You can also check the cron log in /var/adm/cron/log. You will recognize the scriptname and two lines showing the start and end of execution.