> > > Hello all, I have a little frustrating problem with cron. I have a script > that mails me some reports. I set a cronjob to mail me the reports at a > certain time. However, the reports are never mailed. If I run the script > from the command line, it works fine. Other cronjobs I have > work fine too. > It is just this one script, which uses sendmail, just does not > want to send > me anything as a cronjob... > > Any thoughts? > > Gracias, > Aeryn > > Check your path/environment variables in your cron script. None of these are set when run out of cron (versus running from a shell). You are probably running a command that it cannot find in its path. One thing I do when I can with most of my scrpits is reference full path name for commands ... (even the non-cron ones I do this.. just good practice for security reasons) e..g if you are running the sendmail command in your script, instead of echo "" | sendmail -v root i'd use /bin/echo "" | /usr/lib/sendmail -v root If you have more problems, use #!/bin/bash -x at the top of the script (this does a verbose output..very verbose), call the cron script from another script (in cron) and redirect output to a text file so you can see what it's doing ... so if your cron scrpit is cronscript1.sh , put the #!/bin/bash -x on the top of cronscript1.sh .. then create asecond script (say cronscript2.sh) that does this #!/bin/bash /full/path/to/cronscript1.sh >& /tmp/output.txt and run cronscript2.sh out of cron Ben Yau -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
