[SOLVED] Cron Tab Problems !

Nikhil_Lagwankar · 02-15-2014, 04:47 AM

my cron tab command is

Code:

*/1 * * * * /home/usrname/Desktop/BEproject/call1.sh > /home/usrname/ab.txt

and the file call1.sh is as below.....

Code:

#!/bin/sh
/bin/echo "hi"
/bin/echo "HI"
gcc -o output /home/usrname/Desktop/BEproject/apacheCheck.c
gcc -o output1 /home/usrname/Desktop/BEproject/nginxCheck.c
./output
./output1

The problem is that the file ab.txt gets generated every minute which has the output

Code:

hi
HI

as expected..

however the c codes i have called in call1.sh don't seem to run.
They don't seem to run because the output of those codes is a text file which doesn't get generated.

What is happening?
Need help please ....

unSpawn · 02-15-2014, 06:05 AM

You're compiling stuff into the CWD of the cron job. That's bad behaviour. Let's hope you don't do that as root user. Either cd into the "/home/usrname/Desktop/BEproject/" directory or create a temporary directory first.

Nikhil_Lagwankar · 02-15-2014, 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn

You're compiling stuff into the CWD of the cron job. That's bad behaviour. Let's hope you don't do that as root user. Either cd into the "/home/usrname/Desktop/BEproject/" directory or create a temporary directory first.

That did it! Thanks...