I have a script that runs a curl command with a soap xml file.
If i run it manually the output is saved to a log file.

If i put it in cron, the output does not write to a file.

curl --insecure --header "Content-Type:text/xml;charset=UTF-8" --header "SOAPAction: findPeopleByCriteria" --data @soap.xml https://mysite.edu/staff/people.wsdl --cert pemfile.pem >> curlout.log

If i run it manually, i get the output to the file.
But when i set it up via cron to run automatically, no output to the file.

Anyone ever seen this before? I've tried the -o option with curl, different redirect variables (2>&1, etc.) nothing seems to work when its in cron.

Thanks!

Cron is not aware of the environment, including path, which is defined when you run it manually so you will have to give it the absolute path to any files it must access at runtime.

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yeah that's what i was reading up on and thought.
I tried the full path, and also putting a variable in for curl as `which curl`

Still a no go.

I tried different output redirects, and still nothing pushes the curl output.
but it can of course push the output of curl www.google.com to a file.

maybe its just something weird about using a soap call and redirecting it.

The question is still probably one of paths, probably for all options which point to files:

yeah i checked all my paths, set them to the full pwd of the file needed.
still a no go.

/sad

What does that part of your cron job look like?

What happens when you try to trap errors to a file?

That might show what curl is complaining about.

You might also look at combining the --silent and --show-error options.