Hi folks,
I've set up a script** to run from cron as below. This script runs from a terminal as it should, but won't run either from cron.d or from cron.hourly when stuffed in there. Can anyone see anything glaringly obviously wrong with it?
It's run as /etc/cron.d/update-ip, with the following line: */5 * * * * root /bin/checkIP.sh
**I'm sure it's a crappy script, but as long as it does the job..... ;-)
Puzzled,
Jenny
#!/bin/sh #checks IP of courthouse every 5 mins and updates file on stoneboat /etc/ddns/courthouse-ip
set -e
currentIP=$(/usr/bin/wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org | sed -e 's/[^[:digit:]|.]//g')
remote="stoneboat:/etc/ddns/" local="/tmp/courthouse-ip"
echo $currentIP > $local >> /home/jenny/checkip.txt 2>&1 ##the last bit was put in to troubleshoot
scp $local $remote
exit 0
On 30 June 2010 15:15, Jenny Hopkins hopkins.jenny@gmail.com wrote:
I've set up a script** to run from cron as below. This script runs from a terminal as it should, but won't run either from cron.d or from cron.hourly when stuffed in there. Can anyone see anything glaringly obviously wrong with it?
It's run as /etc/cron.d/update-ip, with the following line: */5 * * *
- root /bin/checkIP.sh
From the man page:
"The ``sixth'' field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be run. "
Your sixth field is "root" -- is this what you intended?
Srdjan
On 30 June 2010 15:22, Srdjan Todorovic todorovic.s@googlemail.com wrote:
From the man page:
"The ``sixth'' field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be run. "
Your sixth field is "root" -- is this what you intended?
Oops. I was following other working examples that state which user executes the command in this slot. I have removed it, but no difference.
Martin:
Full path to scp?
No difference.
Thanks,
Jenny
On Wed, June 30, 2010 15:22, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
From the man page:
"The ``sixth'' field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be run. "
Your sixth field is "root" -- is this what you intended?
Systems crontabs are a tiny bit different to user crontabs. The system crontab needs to know the user a particular command should be run as.
On 30 Jun 15:22, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
On 30 June 2010 15:15, Jenny Hopkins hopkins.jenny@gmail.com wrote:
I've set up a script** to run from cron as below. This script runs from a terminal as it should, but won't run either from cron.d or from cron.hourly when stuffed in there. Can anyone see anything glaringly obviously wrong with it?
It's run as /etc/cron.d/update-ip, with the following line: */5 * * *
- root /bin/checkIP.sh
From the man page:
"The ``sixth'' field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be run. "
Your sixth field is "root" -- is this what you intended?
Yes, it really was what she really meant...
Now... Miss Hopkins... Are you sure that it's not being executed? Can you do a grep "CRON" /var/log/syslog, see if it's executing at all, if not then I wonder if it's one of my *favourite* cron.d issues...
(oh, and that would *not* work in cron.daily, things in cron.daily are straight scripts).
Add a blank line at the end of the file...
Seriously.
Yes, I'm really not shitting you.
Cheers,
On 30 June 2010 16:47, Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk wrote:
Add a blank line at the end of the file...
Seriously.
Yes, I'm really not shitting you.
You weren't, were you! That has fixed it where all else failed. Thanks ever so much!
Grateful,
Jenny.
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