Can't get amdsp to work from cron

[Tom Gore]

We have been having problems with ISEE notifiying us when an error has been encountered on the FC60 disk array so I thought I'd put together a script using "amdsp -a ". I send the results to a file and "play" with the file using grep and awk. Everything works fine when I run the script from a command prompt. When I try to schedule the script via cron I get the following message:

/usr/local/util/amdsp_chk[5]: amdsp: Execute permission denied. Null message body; hope that's ok

I went to /opt/hparry/bin and changed the permissions for amdsp to be
"-r-xr-xr-x 1 root sys"
hoping that would solve my problem. It has not. My script has the permission of
"-rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys"
What am I missing?

Thanks

[Kent Ostby · Accepted solution]

Tom --

When I encounter cron problems, its generally a path issue.

Try setting the path in your cron script and/or putting in full path names for everything.

Best regards,

Kent M. Ostby

[Steve Steel]

Hi

cron is a different environment.

Try

. /users/home/.profile

At the start of the script to run the profile you use from the command prompt


Steve Steel

[Darren Prior]

Hi Tom,

Are you running the cronjob as root? It's likely that amdsp must be run as root, even if you've changed the file permissions.

regards,

Darren.

[Franky_1]

Hi Tom,

could it be that you're running your cronjob under another account than root ?
If so , you're possibly running in that permission problem.
Just a thought ...

Franky

[Tom Gore]

Thanks to all.

Kent, your solution was the one that worked. When I specified the full path for amdsp in my script, it worked just fine.