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I have wriiten a bash script to encrypt a file using gpg, when i manually run it the script successfully encrypts the file, but when i put it in a cron it doesnt seem to work.
I am using RedHat 9.
I setup the cron usong crontab -e but still it didnt work, then i directly put it in the /etc/crontab file
please check the following
As log shows, it is running the job
1)check the script is ok( sh 1.sh)
If it is ok, check the path in crontab(seems to me, u r missing a / before root)
30 11 * * * /root/1.sh>/tmp/ab.log
oh... it is user root!!!!
But am getting the output.
its writing a file it /tmp
May 28 17:40:01 **** crond[6026]: (root) CMD (/root/1.sh > /tmp/ab.log)
May 28 17:41:01 **** crond[6032]: (root) CMD (/root/1.sh > /tmp/ab.log)
what i am asking is only as part of a script i actually have to encrypt and transfer files between branches,
so the line of the script that i gave you is a test one for encrypting, i want the script to run from cron, i run the script from terminal maually it is fine,
but the script i mentioned above doesnt want to run form cron
the line of the script that does the encryption is this
i know that it is writing the crontab file /tmp/ab.log but it is not doing the encryption part in the script, the cron is working as per logs but it is not doing the encryption.
but when i run the script test.sh to encrypt it works fine
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