cron entries not running as expected

[sstan]

Hi guys,
cron daemon is running, and i had a root cronjob to start the task at 9:30am the job had to run from monday - friday as e.g entry:

30 9 * * 1-5 ./path/test.sh

but i check the /var/adm/cron/log but found no entry . the test.sh suppose to write some text to a text file but after 9:30am i check and found it was empty.

any one can pinpoint error , any help is appreaciate.

[Michael Tully]

Cron is really stupid. If you want a job to run, you MUST supply the full path the program/command. You can't use ./

30 9 * * 1-5 /usr/local/bin/test.sh

[Bill Hassell]

And to amplify Michael's reply just a bit, cron does not login--it just runs the program on your behalf. So anything that happens in your login profiles will NOT happen in your cron job. You can use the command: set to see all the current login values, then use the same command in your script and you'll see that almost nothing is supplied. You may have to add additional variables to yuor script.

[sstan]

hey all,

thanks for all valuable time ...

many thanks.

[sstan]

thanks for solutions.