CRONJOB - starting RMI

[Dhiren]

I am trying to start RMI (remote machine invokation) in a cronjob. If I use following on a command line it works but fails in cronjob

/fin/web/cgi-lawson/rmi/startps.exe

Checked log file under /var/adm/cron but does not return any code.

[RAC_1]

Most of the time, the cron jobs fail because, required environment is not present. cron jobs runs with minimal envoronment unless specified.

Try specifying all required variables. Also, if root has received any email for failed job .

Anil

[Dhiren]

Anil:

Thank you for the quick reply. I hope you solve the problem that fast too :-).

As per your instruction I tried

21 14 * * * sh -c ". /fin/law/lawson.env;/fin/web/cgi-lawson/rmi/startps.exe"

no luck. still RMI did not start.

I also checked the mail for root no info there either.

Thanks again.

[Sanjay_6]

It is failing since the job probably needs env variables that do not get exported when it is run through cron, but the env variables are used when run through command line.

to mitigate this,

do this,

su - user_name -c "/fin/web/cgi-lawson/rmi/startps.exe"

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Sanjay_6]

You can also try,

/your_home_dir/.profile;/fin/web/cgi-lawson/rmi/startps.exe


Hope this helps.

Regds

[RAC_1]

As told by Sanjay, you can make all required envoronments available to your command.

If you do not want that put a script as follows.

#/usr/bin/ksh

export X1="whatever"
export X2="whatever"

Export all variaables like this.
/fin/web/cgi-lawson/rmi/startps.exe

Hope this helps.

Anil

[Dhiren]

I have tried this

42 14 * * * sh -c ". /fin/law/lawson.env; cd $CGIDIR/rmi;startps.exe"

still no good. Your help is much appreciated.

[RAC_1]

Does /fin/law/lawson.env exports required variables, so that they are available for your command?

As told earlier, try doing it as Sanjay and I told.

Anil

[Dhiren]

Thank you all. I will try your suggetion and post the result