I am experiencing a similar issue. I have a crontab job setup to run a
simple script that when it is complete is supposed to append two items,
on one line, to a logfile.
The script is simple, it is supposed to echo a line of text (using the
-n option) and also use "date" to append a time/date stamp to the file.
When I manually run the script, it works perfectly. It does its task and
it also appends both pieces into the logfile. When ran through crontab,
only the timestamp is appended to the file.
To me, it seems like a rather bizarre behaviour.
Is this problem a bug in the crontab package that shipped with Red Hat
7.2? I haven't seen anything detailing this anywhere else.
Thanks for the help.
Regards,
Robert Adkins II
IT Manager/Buyer
Impel Industries, Inc.
Ph. 586-254-5800
Fx. 586-254-5804
-----Original Message-----
From: Jianping Zhu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Robert Adkins
Subject: why is wrong with this /etc/crontab
I have redhat 7.3 server the /etc/crontab is as following
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SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/
# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.houily
2 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
10 12 * * 1-5 root /usr/local/pubcrawler/pubcrawler #line10
10 12 * * * * root /home/jzhu/pl/p1.pl>/home/jzhu/o1.dat #line11
10 12 * * * * root echo "jzhu>/home/jzhu/jzhu.dat #line12
----------------------------------------------------------------
Line12 works fine, line10, line11 does not work. pubcrawler , p1.pl are
script files .If
i do not use crontab. i type /usr/local/pubcrawler/pubcrawler or
/home/jzhu/pl/p1.pl>/home/jzhu/o1.dat from commnad line, both
work. how to fix the problem to let /etc/crontab work properly?
Thanks?
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Jianping Zhu
Department of Computer Science
Univerity of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
Tel 706 5423900
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