OK. So although the script is located in my home directory, it doesn’t start there? Sorry but I don’t quite understand. Could you explain a little further please?
Regards SI Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Jonathan Chen Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 3:50 PM To: Software Info Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab Question On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 08:18, Software Info <softwareinfo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All > I am trying to schedule cron to run a script. The script is in my home > directory and so I added my home directory to the path file in /etc/crontab > below. > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:~/bin:/home:/home/me > > This is the crontab entry for the scheduled task below. > 49 14 * * 1-5 root myscript.sh > > myscript.sh grabs a file from another directory if it is there. If not, it > says “file not uploaded”. If the file is there, it copies it to my home > directory, strips email addresses out of it and uses mailx to send emai to > those users. I keep getting the error that a number of files in my home > directory are missing but they are not. > > Please see errors below > mv: rename *.csv to listing.csv: No such file or directory > grep: listing.csv: No such file or directory > /home/me/ipo-script.sh: cannot open body.txt: No such file or directory > mv: rename /home/me/listing.txt to /home/me/listing.txt-10-04-19-1435: No > such file or directory > mv: rename /home/me/listing.csv to /home/me/listing.csv-10-04-19-1435: No > such file or directory > mv: rename /home/me/listing.txt-10-04-19-1435 to > /home/me/IPO-Backup-Files/listing.txt-10-04-19-1435: No such file or directory > mv: rename /home/me/listing.csv-10-04-19-1435 to > /home/me/IPO-Backup-Files/listing.csv-10-04-19-1435: No such file or directory > > Because I added my home directory to the path in crontab, I am at a loss to > explain why this is still happening. Anyone have any ideas? Would really > appreciate some help. You are assuming that the script starts in your home directory. It doesn't, hence: "mv: rename *.csv to listing.csv: No such file or directory" -- Jonathan Chen <j...@chen.org.nz> _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
