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I have a rather strange problem. I put a cp command in cron but it doesn't copy the file. I put the same command under cron in a debian box and it works fine. My command in cron is:
So, this runs at 1:53am on only Fridays and copies fd_test.xml to fd_twantrd.xml. This crontab is under a normal user (not root). If I log in as that user's account and run the command it's fine. But if it's in cron, it just won't copy the file.
Is it a solaris thing? A bit stumped. I could write a script to do this but I'd rather find the problem rather than come up with a workaround. This should be very simple to do. If it helps, this is on solaris 7. Thanks..
Distribution: Solaris 11.4, Oracle Linux, Mint, Debian/WSL
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Anything interesting in /var/cron/log ?
and before that, is the normal user allowed to write on that log file ?
It shouldn't anyway, you'd rather use a custom file for your user's cron logs.
That's all it says. And no, the user cannot write to the log file - but does that really matter?
I'm so stumped as to why cron doesn't copy the file...hmm.
Distribution: Solaris 11.4, Oracle Linux, Mint, Debian/WSL
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That's all it says. And no, the user cannot write to the log file - but does that really matter?
I believe it does really matter.
This is my guess:
Before running the command, cron has first to manage its input and output files, and as you wrote, it cannot open stdout nor stderr !
Why do you want cron bothering go further ... it simply fails, and is prevented to tell it to you by this foolish redirection ...
I just wanted cron to redirect output to a cron log file for examination if something happened. I'll take the route that you mentioned - saving it a file that the user can write to. Yes, you were correct. Once I took out ">> /var/cron/log" in the cron entry, it worked. Thanks for your help. Just learned something new.
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