"permission denied" error when cron job executes
 

All~

Go easy...I'm wicked new to this and yes I rtfm/how-to/etc.

I'm running this script in cron.hourly (naturally the names/etc have been changed to protect my job....)

#!/bin/bash

###let's log into the Novell server and copy some files###
ncpmount -S "SERVERNAME" -V "VOLUME" -m -U linux.adm.### -P "passwd" /mnt/servername

cp /mnt/####/DATA/APPS/Web/###site/##/daily/daily.pdf /var/www/html/##/daily/
cp /mnt/####/DATA/APPS/Web/###site/##/daily/daily.pdf /var/www/html/##/daily/

umount /mnt/"servername"

and when it executes, I get a "permission denied" error. Now, when I do all of this on the command line, it executes just fine... I've chmod'ed the file to be sure it's run as root....

Any ideas on how/what I'm missing here?

Thanks!
Jill

Try putting a descriptive echo statement above each command so that you can see if it is failing on a specific command.

David~

Unfortunately, putting descriptive echo statements in didn't yield any insights into why this script is having problems....

Thanks for the idea tho'!!

I'm still at a loss as to why it dosen't work, I have other scripts running that basically follow the same format and they fire off just fine.

Jill

Well if you didn't get any echo statements then the script itself is failing. Can you post the output of:
ls -l /path/to/script

Have you tried running it with:
bash /path/to/script

Here's the output from ls -l /path/to/script:


-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 301 Oct 27 15:10 /etc/cron.hourly/announce2

And it's not executable ...


Cheers,
Tink

Tinkster~

Ok, I'll bite... Why do you say "it's not executable"??

Jill

because it's not executable... it should say

Cheers,
Tink

Ok Tinkster.... so, how do I make it executable then?

Jill

chmod u+x /etc/cron.hourly/announce2

Tinkster~

Thanks for the help... Now that it's executable, I am getting this:

./announce2.cron: line 7: cd: /: No such file or directory
./announce2.cron: line 8: cd: /APPS: No such file or directory
./announce2.cron: line 9: cd: /Web: No such file or directory
./announce2.cron: line 10: cd: /site/: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/mnt/"server"/"volume"/APPS/Web/site/xx/daily/xx.pdf': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/mnt/"server"/"volume"/APPS/Web/site/xx/daily/xx.pdf': No such file or directory

I did make one change to the file:

I added:
cd /DATA
cd /APPS
cd /Web
cd /BSDsite/

to see if I would get an error msg about each directory ....

When I check my mounted devices, the proper Novell directory /mnt/"server"/ appears... Why won't the script change to the correct directory to copy the files?

Jill

Does the path have spaces in it? Try surrouding it with quotes.