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Old 06-16-2004, 05:24 PM   #1
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crontab problem


Situation: I have 2 identical scripts each doing their thing in their own directory:
/data/dir1/script.sh
/data/dir2/script.sh

Each script works as it should when I execute it manually.

Ik put the following commands in bleh.cron:
15,30,45,0 * * * * /data/dir1/script.sh
15,30,45,0 * * * * /data/dir2/script.sh

After that, I did "crontab bleh.cron", crontab -l gives back both lines of bleh.cron (15,30,45,0 * * * * /data/dir1/script.sh & 15,30,45,0 * * * * /data/dir2/script.sh).
The scripts should be run every quarter of an hour, but the problem is only /data/dir1/script.sh is executed.

What's the problem?
 
Old 06-16-2004, 05:45 PM   #2
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Some of my gray cells claim that there needs to be a
blank line at the end of a crontab file ... not sure why
they do so, I didn't seen anything to that effect in
the man pages ...



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Old 06-16-2004, 05:55 PM   #3
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Well, there is a blank line..

Weird: when changing lines, the script in dir2 stays unexecuted..
(so: (1) is always executed, no matter if its before or after (2) )

I saved bleh.cron in /data/dir1
could this be the problem?
 
Old 06-16-2004, 05:58 PM   #4
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are you SURE your snytax is rigth?
 
Old 06-16-2004, 06:01 PM   #5
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I've just tried what you describe...

Thing is, if I have a blank line at the end of
bleh.cron, and do crontab bleh.cron, the
actual crontab DOESN'T inherit the blank
line. In crontab -e I have to manually add
a line afterwards.



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Old 06-16-2004, 06:09 PM   #6
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Quote:
Originally posted by Tuttle
are you SURE your snytax is rigth?
Yeah, I can manually execute both scripts (which are identical btw) flawlessly

With crontab -e the blank lines are also included, added some more just to be sure


OW:
test@Jupiter:~$ crontab -e
skipping 1 old session file
reading /var/spool/cron/crontab.6114

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Old 06-16-2004, 06:13 PM   #7
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Sorry, had to ask. I've stared at simple mistakes for days without noticing!!!

edit: make bz<I>mage! DOH!

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Old 06-17-2004, 03:23 AM   #8
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Hehe

Nobody else with an idea?

I just don't get it: in both lines I use absolute paths, both are correct (e.g.: I can do "less [path]" and it will work) and still only the first one is executed..
 
Old 06-17-2004, 06:59 AM   #9
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I removed the dir1 entry and waited.. Seems like there is _something_ wrong, but I don't know what.

I'll shortly explain what the script does in order for you guys to understand me better:

the script reads a file in the same directory (status.txt) and greps 'n' cuts a few things out of it, puts those tings into variables.
Then I let the script run lynx -dump [URL] , where [URL] is a link to de central status server. The URL contains the variables in the querystring (e.g.: "input.php?a=BlackRabbit&ID=1").
The ID is used like a primary key on the webserver: the corresponding statusinfo is updated on the webserver.
As said, both scripts sit in their own directory, each having their own status.txt for themselves.

When executing the scripts manually, the status is properly updated (1 => 1, 2 => 2) on the central status webserver, with crontab, it's always the first (with ID=1) that is updated..
When I echo the $url variable (in my script), everything is also fine...

Kind of weird

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Old 06-17-2004, 07:38 AM   #10
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I think I know what's wrong

Are cronjobs run from the user's homedir? (the one they get to when they log in)
I think so
 
  


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