Joel
If you haven't done so already, you might confirm that replacing
${file} with an actual file name displays the same symptom. Maybe even
remove the single quote from the final echo.
I ran
#!/usr/bin/ksh
#tmw
echo "Here I go " >> /tmp/file.lis1
exec 1>/tmp/file.lis2 2>&1
echo "utilizing exec"
echo "Here I don't go " >> /tmp/file.lis1
from HP-UX cron and it worked according to Hoyle. 2 lines in .lis1 and
the one in .lis2. Same result with #!/usr/bin/sh.
Do you capture the cron output thusly?:
32 07 * * 5 /home/dba/bin/tmwtest >/tmp/tmwtest.cron 2>&1
Unlikely, but ...
Do you know that your online shell is the same as the one which cron
uses?
If your linux has a non-bash shell, maybe you could try that?
Trevor
-----Original Message-----
From: Patterson Joel
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x70898580.[Email address protected]
Sent: Friday, 30 December 2005 5:27 AM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: RE: crontab and exec
I can echo, echo, and it will go to the file as follows:
Echo "Here I go " >> /u01/file.lis
Then,
Exec 1>${file} 2>&1
Echo "Here I don't go " >> /u01/file.lis
It is as simple as that. I even sourced echo...
ECHO=/bin/echo
$ECHO "Here I don't go " >> /u01/file.lis
This only doesn't work when executing the script from cron.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hagemaier
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x72175287.[Email address protected]
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 3:59 PM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: RE: crontab and exec
Joel-
Is ${file} part of your environment or to you pass it to the script?
Just a thought but consider that cron jobs execute without an
environment. For example $PATH doesn't exist.
-----Original Message-----
From: Patterson Joel
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x30363202.[Email address protected]
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 12:51 PM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: crontab and exec
I'm having a heck of a time with cron on WBEL (linux). (sysadmin being
twirp) -- teaching me sysadmin by letting me figure it out myself, (ie
lazy)... except I don't want to be a sysadmin... nuf of that).
1) Some of you may recall my "exec 1>${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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