Hey Guys,

This is the most frustrating problem I've had in a while. I have an Elastix PBX running on CentOS 5.10. Everything works perfectly - except this Cron job:

*/1 * * * * /var/www/html/calls.sh

here's the script:

#! /bin/sh
file="/var/www/html/calls.txt"
if [ -f "$file" ]
then
rm /var/www/html/calls.txt
touch /var/www/html/calls.txt
chmod 777 /var/www/html/calls.txt
asterisk -rx 'core show channels' | grep -m1 "call" | cut -d' ' -f1 >> /var/www/html/calls.txt
else
touch /var/www/html/calls.txt
chmod 777 /var/www/html/calls.txt
asterisk -rx 'core show channels' | grep -m1 "call" | cut -d' ' -f1 >> /var/www/html/calls.txt
fi

When I run this manually in a terminal, it does exactly what I want it to - however, when Cron runs it, it will create the calls.txt file, but it does not write anything to it. The server only has one user (root) and when I created this, I created it as root.

Can someone help?

Thanks!

Nevermind - Specifying the path fixed this:

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

so please mark the thread solved. The problem was I think the cron job cannot find the command asterisk. You ought to use all the commands using full path in cronjobs.

I think the problem is that cron 'ignores' all ENV variables.

No that is not a problem at all. It is designed to do that.

so its a design flaw. :P

No, it is a design constraint.