Hi,

I write following script.

#!/bin/bash

TEST=$(ifconfig | grep "ppp")

if [ -z "$TEST" ]
then
pptp xxx.xxx.xxx.37 call testVPN_original
fi

echo $TEST
SUB=${TEST:0:3}

YY="ppp"

echo $YY
echo $SUB
if [ $SUB == $YY ];
then
ping -c 2 192.168.0.2
route add default gw 192.168.0.2
fi


and named it as "redial" and set permission chmod u+x redial (chmod 755 redial)

ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 287 Jan 21 00:19 redial

I save this file in /etc/crond.d/redial
manually this script is running correctly but when I add this script to crontab it never runs. following is my crontab file.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PERL=/usr/bin/perl
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=""
HOME=/
22 5 * * * /usr/bin/perl /var/adm/bin/registry.pl > /dev/null 2>&1
16 * * * * /var/lib/asterisk/bin/freepbx-cron-scheduler.php
22 20 * * * /etc/webmin/cron/tempdelete.pl
2 * * * * /bin/sh /etc/cron.d/redial

2 * * * * /bin/sh /etc/cron.d/redial is not running by crontab producing following error

/bin/sh: /etc/cron.d/redial: Permission denied

I've following cron files
cron.d/
cron.daily/
cron.deny
cron.hourly/
cron.monthly/
crontab
cron.weekly/

no cron.allow file means all user are allowed.
cron.deny file is empty.

I don't have any idea regarding this deny.
Please help

One or two things are unclear here..

1) Near the end of your post, you list some FOLDERS, not files. And I don't believe the cron program you are using, actually cares what the names of those folders are; they are more for your convenience than for the cron program.

2) What cron program are you using? I am assuming Dillons Cron, but if I'm wrong, please tell us. If it is Dillons (which I use), I don't see in the man pages any reference to a "cron.allow" or 'cron.deny' file or folder. Are you sure this is relevant?

3) It looks like a simple permissions issue. I wonder if the fact that you have the "/bin/sh" on the crontab line is causing the problem. Dillons Cron executes commands using "/bin/sh -c" already, so putting /bin/sh there (considering that you already have a shabang atop your script anyway) may be the problem.

First thing I'd do, would be remove the /bin/sh from the crontab entry.

Sasha

Thanks for help.

1) cron.deny is file not directory
2) I'm not sure which cron program I'm using because I'm using CentOS 5 and cron is pre-installed.
3) yes remove /bin/sh from cron now it looks like following

SHELL=/bin/sh
PERL=/usr/bin/perl
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=""
HOME=/
22 5 * * * /usr/bin/perl /var/adm/bin/registry.pl > /dev/null 2>&1
16 * * * * /var/lib/asterisk/bin/freepbx-cron-scheduler.php
22 20 * * * /etc/webmin/cron/tempdelete.pl
2 * * * * /etc/cron.d/redial

but still not running

problem may be is in

chmod u+x redial

this gives on my system

-rwxr-xr-x 1 AAA AAA 253 Jan 27 12:49 redial

which is not same as 755

for
chmod 755 redial

-rwxr-xr-x 1 AAA AAA 253 Jan 27 12:49 redial

in
/var/log/cron

(*system*) BAD FILE MODE (/etc/cron.d/redial)

means what should I set

chmod 755 redial or chmod u+x redial

Hi
(*system*) BAD FILE MODE (/etc/cron.d/redial) error has gone when I change my script's pemission from 755 to 644

now my cron log shows every 2 min it runs(read) /etc/cron.d/redial.sh


Jan 21 15:12:01 xxxx crond[6811]: (root) CMD (/etc/cron.d/redial.sh)
Jan 21 15:14:01 xxxx crond[6813]: (root) CMD (/etc/cron.d/redial.sh)
Jan 21 15:16:01 xxxx crond[6838]: (root) CMD (/etc/cron.d/redial.sh)
Jan 21 15:16:01 xxxx crond[6840]: (root) CMD (/var/lib/asterisk/bin/freepbx-cron-scheduler.php)
Jan 21 15:18:01 xxxx crond[6845]: (root) CMD (/etc/cron.d/redial.sh)
Jan 21 15:20:01 xxxx crond[6850]: (root) CMD (/etc/cron.d/redial.sh)
Jan 21 15:22:01 xxxx crond[6852]: (root) CMD (/etc/cron.d/redial.sh)
Jan 21 15:24:01 xxxx crond[6862]: (root) CMD (/etc/cron.d/redial.sh)
Jan 21 15:26:01 xxxx crond[6922]: (root) CMD (/etc/cron.d/redial.sh)
Jan 21 15:28:01 xxxx crond[6924]: (root) CMD (/etc/cron.d/redial.sh)
Jan 21 15:30:01 xxxx crond[6926]: (root) CMD (/etc/cron.d/redial.sh)
Jan 21 15:32:01 xxxx crond[6931]: (root) CMD (/etc/cron.d/redial.sh)
Jan 21 15:34:01 xxxx crond[6935]: (root) CMD (/etc/cron.d/redial.sh)
Jan 21 15:36:01 xxxx crond[6941]: (root) CMD (/etc/cron.d/redial.sh)
Jan 21 15:38:01 xxxx crond[6943]: (root) CMD (/etc/cron.d/redial.sh)
Jan 21 15:40:01 xxxx crond[6945]: (root) CMD (/etc/cron.d/redial.sh)
Jan 21 15:42:01 xxxx crond[6951]: (root) CMD (/etc/cron.d/redial.sh)

But never happen according to my script.

I don't know why it is not running when 755 is set as file permission.

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your help. Now it is working fine.

I just change the script permission to

chmod u+x /etc/cron.d/redial.sh


and following is my crontab entry

*/2 * * * * /etc/cron.d/redial.sh

It runs after 2 mins and runs script(redial.sh)

This script is providing me consistent connection to my VPN server if VPN breaks it redial after 2 min.

Thanks.

Farrukh Fida.

Nice glad you got it sorted out.

So it appears that the script to be executed needed to have the .sh extension on it? Besides removing the /bin/sh from the front of the entry?

Yes exactly