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aravinda_sh
July 28th, 2008, 07:00 AM
Hi All,
I have cron tab entry like this. Why I am not getting it executed and send a mil to me.
PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
01 04 * * * cd </var/www/bugzilla> ; ./collectstats | sendmail "Bugs status" aravinda.sh@gmail.com
01 05 * * * cd </var/www/bugzilla>; ./automysqlbackup | sendmail "Bugzilla backup" aravinda.sh@gmail.com

I have this cron tab entry in /var/www/bugzilla directory. I could see these scripts getting executed and send a mail to me.

collectstats is a perl script collectstats.pl
and automysqlbackup is shell script automysqlbackup.sh.

Please some can help me on this.

Aravinda SH
spupy
July 28th, 2008, 10:04 AM
Well, use the full names of the scripts in the cron entry.
Like "collectstats.pl" instead of "collectstats".
aravinda_sh
July 28th, 2008, 10:18 AM
Well, use the full names of the scripts in the cron entry.
Like "collectstats.pl" instead of "collectstats".
Yes I did. To verify I added the following line
* * * * * /bin/echo "Hello World" and then restarted using the command
sudo /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart

After a minute I typed "mail", I get message saying "No mail for root".

I suspect my crontab is not working.
spupy
July 28th, 2008, 02:04 PM
Yes I did. To verify I added the following line
* * * * * /bin/echo "Hello World" and then restarted using the command
sudo /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart

After a minute I typed "mail", I get message saying "No mail for root".

I suspect my crontab is not working.

So the commands you use work themselves, but in crontab they don't? In that case you really need to check your syntax.
Instead of doing a "cd" to the folder containing the script and then calling the script, try to invoke the script using its whole path, like:

/var/www/bugzilla/collectstats.pl
aravinda_sh
July 29th, 2008, 12:12 PM
So the commands you use work themselves, but in crontab they don't? In that case you really need to check your syntax.
Instead of doing a "cd" to the folder containing the script and then calling the script, try to invoke the script using its whole path, like:

/var/www/bugzilla/collectstats.pl
Thank you very much and it worked.