works on command not on cron

rickict · 11-17-2005, 08:11 AM

trying to automate back up scripts using cygwin and crontab.
the script works perfectly when i run it manually. but when i cron it
it only runs part of the script .

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# This shell script file backs up the data from SHARE
# -------------SCRIPT VARIABLES---------------
SHARE="//server/myshare";
DATADIR="myshare";
USERNAME="boggle"        #or notneeded
PASSWD="mypass";                   
BACKUPFILE="myshare";
#BACKUPDRIVE="/dev/hdc1";
BACKUPMP="/cygdrive/d/cacheback/";
SMBMP="/mnt/smb/";
# ---------------------------------------------
export PASSWD;
echo 'go------------------------------------------------------------------';
date;  

mount -f $SHARE $SMBMP ;#password=$PASSWD username=$USERNAME;
if (ls $SMBMP) then #removed $DATADIR
     echo "Backing up $SHARE";
     cd $SMBMP;
    
     rsync -vur $SMBMP $BACKUPMP$DATADIR/;

     cd /;
     
fi;
     umount $SMBMP;

when run from cron i only get it printing out go and the date and time
it cant do the mount jobs?

ahedler · 11-17-2005, 02:52 PM

In cron, you usually don't have an environment as you will in an interactive session, so paths are not established, among other things. You may be able to get it to work by specifying complete paths for every utility that you call, but I can't guarantee that this will make everything work. I need to read up on that some more.

-alan