running system info related commands via cron

[Kuntal Gupta]

Hi,

I am finding that system information related commands like, machinfo, parstatus etc are not being executed via cron. If in a script these commands are used to extract the system info, and the script is run independently (i.e. not via cron scheduler) the system command are executed and create the out put file with the command o/p. But when the script is put in cron, these commands are just not executed where as other normal command like ioscan etc, netstat etc are executed. Pls suggest...

Kuntal

[Torsten.]

You always need to use the full path to a binary while scripting, did you do that?

[Steven Schweda]

> You always need to use the full path to a
> binary while scripting, [...]

Really? You can't just set a proper PATH?


> [...] in cron, these commands are just not
> executed [...]

Rather than tell us what did not happen, you
might try to tell us what you actually
observed.

[Kuntal Gupta]

Thanks to both of you for your quick reply against my quarry.

e.g Initially 'machinfo | grep -i Memory >> file_name' command was not giving any o/p in the o/p file but after your suggestion I have amended the command to '/usr/contrib/bin/machinfo | grep -i Memory >> file_name' i.e. I have used the full path and it is now working fine.

But for the 'top -s1 -d1' the problem persists even after giving the full path, /usr/bin/top.

Regards...

Kuntal

[Steven Schweda]

> But for the 'top -s1 -d1' the problem
> persists even after giving the full path,
> /usr/bin/top.

You might try to save the error messages
using something like "2> error_log" on that
command.

As usual, some basic information might be
interesting. For example:

uname -a
/usr/bin/top --version

[Kuntal Gupta]

running 11.31 version,
Box-rx8640 with 4 vPars

[Dennis Handly]

>But for the 'top -s1 -d1' the problem persists even after giving the full path, /usr/bin/top.

If you aren't running top on a terminal, you'll need to use the "-f filename" option to redirect the output.

>SEP: /usr/bin/top --version

Not on HP-UX but you can use what(1).

[Kuntal Gupta]

Thanks Mr Steven Schweda,

with -f option it is working fine.

Just I have one quarry, how should I identify the version of any command, say as u have asked for top?

Thanks a lot once again....

Kuntal

[Dennis Handly]

>how should I identify the version of any command

Most HP-UX commands don't have versions other than the HP-UX version. You may be able to use what(1) to find if they were patched.

[Kuntal Gupta]

I have found a solution of my question, my speacial thanks to Mr Steven Schweda.