Whenever I have a script that works from the command line, but not from
cron, it is usually something I assume to be in the environment that is not
when run from cron. cron uses a very limited environment, so if you have not
sourced something to set up environment parameters, that may be part of the
problem.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Patterson Joel
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x30363202.[Email address protected]
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 2:51 PM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: crontab and exec
I'm having a heck of a time with cron on WBEL (linux). (sysadmin being
twirp) -- teaching me sysadmin by letting me figure it out myself, (ie
lazy)... except I don't want to be a sysadmin... nuf of that).
1) Some of you may recall my "exec 1>${file} 1>&2" line of code I use
in my scripts... I am attempting to solve my original riddle (which I
won't go into here), by running my script now via cron. What used to
work does not seem to correctly, at least on this box.
I cannot get any statement after the 'exec' to echo anywhere IF the
script is called from cron. (It works otherwise).
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2) ALSO. cron is runnig on EST, and my 'date' displays GMT... (I want
cron to run on GMT time as well.
More /etc/sysconfig/clock
ZONE="Europe/London"
UTC=true
ARC=false
Other server have different settings. Where do I go from here?
Something is missing as 'normal' sysadmins have already set up such
things for me and my scripts 'normally' work.
Thanks
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