Script problem Please help !

[Kenn Chen]

I have write following scritp to retrieve some data from omstat command. It work fine when I run it manually (output : 12:57:35 1133). But when I schedule crontab (* 8-18 * * * /home/user.ksh) it output only the time only without show the quantity. WHY ??

Script file contents:-

#! /bin/ksh

cd /home
clear

count=`omstat -s |grep Remote |awk '{print $6}'`
time=`date|awk '{print $4}'`

echo ""$time"\t"$count"" >> user.txt

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[Frank Li]

Because when Cron run , it does't the environment ( especially the PATH), so you should use the command with the absolute path .

One more thing , cron is always run in "sh".

[Tim D Fulford]

You could get your environment variables in relatively easily by sourcing your .profile

eg add near the top of your script

. /.profile

Tim

[Praveen Bezawada]

Hi
When run in cron the goodies like PATH etc are not set.
Cron does not login so the all the setting need to be specially set.

PRB

[Victor_5]

Always use full path names for your commands and file names, since cron uses only the standard environment of /usr/bin/sh and does not know about your environment, for example, your current directory, variables and PATH. By default, crontab opens the user's own cron file. Check your ~/.profile.

[someone_4]

Hello here are 2 posts that brought up the same question.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x99a772234586d5118ff00090279cd0f9,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x026746ff9277d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html

Richard