my script shell not works automaticaly

sobo32 · 04-08-2008, 01:45 AM

my script shell is the follow

#!/bin/bash
Njour=$(date +%A|awk '{print toupper($1)}')

if [[ $Njour == JEUDI ]]
then
echo '====== backup JEUDI =========' >> /tmp/log.cron
else
echo '====== backup NON JEUDI =====' >> /tmp/log.cron
fi

my script work normaly with command line but it not works with unix cron
#ls -lrt test.sh
-rwx------ 1 root root 1760 apr 4 2008 test
#whoami
root
#crontab -l

00 11 * * * /home/test.sh

can anyone help me

cmnorton · 04-08-2008, 07:36 AM

Is your shell script really in /home or in /home/your_login?

colucix · 04-08-2008, 07:41 AM

Also check the root mail to see the standard output and the standard error of the crontab job, or use redirection to put messages in a file:

Code:

00 11 * * * /home/test.sh > /root/crontab.log 2>&1

sobo32 · 04-09-2008, 03:46 AM

yes my script is locate in /home but I'm root user .. changing crontab
# crontab -l
00 11 * * * /home/test.sh > /tmp/crontab.log 2>&1

always not works and my out file crontab.log is empty also the file /tmp/log.cron

?????

colucix · 04-09-2008, 05:11 AM

If the file /tmp/crontab.log has been created, the crontab job has been executed (unless you have created it before). First, you can verify if the crontab works properly with a simple command, like this

Code:

00 11 * * * /bin/echo crontab test > /tmp/log.cron

Second, have you checked if root has received some mail from the cron daemon, before you added the redirection to crontab.log?

sobo32 · 04-09-2008, 09:05 AM

my crontab now is :
#crontab -l
00 11 * * * /home/test.sh
00 11 * * * /bin/echo 'crontab test' > /tmp/log.cron

firstly I deleted a file /tmp/log.cron for testing if the file log.cron is created or not ..
the result is : no file with name "log.cron" in /tmp directory

???

sobo32 · 04-09-2008, 09:06 AM

in more i don't any mail in root box ??

colucix · 04-09-2008, 12:16 PM

Is the cron daemon up and running?

Code:

ps -C crond    # On redhat-based
ps -C cron     # On other systems

sshd.root · 04-09-2008, 03:40 PM

Defaults, cron deamon write messages in log files. What do you see in logs files?

sobo32 · 04-12-2008, 03:34 AM

my crond is up and where is the log file that the crond write ??

colucix · 04-12-2008, 08:31 AM

Look at /var/log/messages.

sobo32 · 04-20-2008, 09:05 AM

ok my script works now !!!!!! thanks 5/5

colucix · 04-20-2008, 11:52 AM

Which problem was it?

sobo32 · 04-21-2008, 03:34 AM

when I execute the scripts with command line the variable Njour is :
# Njour=$(date +%A|awk '{print toupper($1)}')
# echo $Njour
LUNDI
# echo $LANG
fr_FR.UTF-8

but when I excute with cron I must change my test

if [[ $Njour == MONDAY ]]

So it is a problem of variable LANG