Problem In Scheduling with Crontab on RHEL 4
 

Hi,

I am Scheduling a Shell Script using Crontab. But its not working.

The Scripts actually deletes files after 12:00 PM at night that has been
created during day time.

Shell Scripts is :-

File name- delete_old.sh

#! /bin/bash

cd /home/52222Setup/Check

day=`date | cut -d" " -f3`

for var in `ls -lh | awk '{print $6 " " $9 " " $7}' |grep -v " "$day | cut -d " " -f 2`

do

if [ "$var" == "delete_old.sh" ]

then

echo $var Not Deleted

else

if [ "$var" == "dt.sh" ]

then

echo $var



else

echo $var

rm -f $var

fi

fi

done


I have scheduled it using following command in crontab

@daily /home/52222Setup/Check/delete_old.sh >dev/null &

or

*/1 * * * * /home/52222Setup/Check/delete_old.sh >dev/null &


But it is not deleting files. I have noticed that crontab calls the scripts
but it does not delete the file. Nothing is printed in spool mails as well.

When i run this script manually, it works fine.

Please help.

Regards,

Raghuvendra Kumar

Have a look at:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...3/#post2869197

What is stated there for "grep" would also apply to "awk" and other commands you're using.

Thanks for your help. It worked. As per you suggestion i just added in my script,

PATH=/bin

I'd also point out there's no need to put the process in the background when running from cron.
Also, why run it every minute? There's a lot of load on the system creating a whole new process env each time. Use a daemon instead if you really need to process every minute.

Thanks for your advice. I will do that.