script run ok manually but failed when run as a cronjob

[Fenglin]

Hi

I write the script,ftp_stats.sh below

#!/usr/bin/ksh

/usr/bin/ftp -i -n < ftp_stats.txt
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ftp_stats.txt is as follows
open IPaddress
user id password
cd dataload
put stats.log

The objective is to run the job as a cron successfully.

Please advice.

Regards
Feng Lin
Please advice.

[R.K. #]

Hi Fenglin,

How do you run the script manually?

Because the script contains "cd" command, I guess that might be a issue.

The script containing "cd" have to be run bit differently as far as I know.

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

could you send the line from crontab ??

mikap

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

what doesn cron.log shows ?

[Fenglin]

Hi All

34 12 * * 1-5 /root/ftp_nspay_stats.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

cron.log shows

CMD: /root/ftp_stats.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
> root 18598 c Thu Dec 17 12:34:00 SST 2009

Regards
Feng Lin

[River Tarnell]

Why don't you remove "> /dev/null 2>&1" from the command so you can see the error message?

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

ls -l /root/ftp_nspay_stats.sh

also make sure you have rwx -permissions ?

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

you could define a dhell before the sh script in the cron.

/usr/bin/ksh /path_to_the_scrit.sh

mikap

[Fenglin]

Hi All

The error message is

Connected to IP address.
220 IP address FTP server (Revision 1.1 Version wuftpd-2.6.1(PHNE_36065) Mon Apr 14 06:17:08 GMT 2008) ready.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
331 Password required for email.
230 User email logged in.
250 CWD command successful.
nspay_stats.log: No such file or directory
221-You have transferred 0 bytes in 0 files.
221-Total traffic for this session was 341 bytes in 0 transfers.
221-Thank you for using the FTP service on IP address.
221 Goodbye.

Any resolution? Please note that when I run manually, it works fine.

Regards
Feng Lin

[River Tarnell]

In your original post the filename was "stats.log", but the error references "nspay_stats.log". I assume the second one is the correct filename?

Most likely the script is not being run from the directory you think it io. You can confirm that by executing "pwd" at the top of the script. If that's the problem, just add "cd /some/dir" before the ftp command. (Where "/some/dir" is the location of nspay_stats.log.)