Problem with cronjob

Arndt · 04-05-2005, 03:24 AM

Hello,

if I execute a shell-script over the command shell with ./backup.sh it works fine. If I create a cronjob with contab -e

0 23 * * 0,1,2,3,4,5 /backup.sh

then the shell script doesn't work.
The shell script begins to start at 11pm and
hang up.
Where is the problem?

In the shell script I use abolute paths.

Can you help me?

Arndt

druuna · 04-05-2005, 05:40 AM

Hi,

This command: ./backup.sh tells me that the backup.sh script is not to be found in the PATH variable. Cron (which one are you actually using?) has an even more limited PATH (if any).

0 23 * * 0,1,2,3,4,5 /backup.sh

Should be:

0 23 * * 0,1,2,3,4,5 cd /path/to/program ; ./backup.sh

or

0 23 * * 0,1,2,3,4,5 /full/path/to/backup.sh

Hope this helps.