Re: [newbie] BASHing My Crontab
From: Ronald A. Yacketta have you but a #! /bin/bash (or is it !# dang I forget) at the very top of the script? also try gicing the full path to the command IE: /usr/sbin/ifconfig /bin/grep (above paths could be wrong, just giving examples)
Re: [newbie] BASHing My Crontab
Something along the lines of; !/bin/bash -u At the beginning of the script? The idea is to change the shell of the script currently running to be bash, and when the script terminates, control returns to sh. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 1:26 PM Subject: [newbie] BASHing My Crontab Hey Scripting Gurus, I set up a crontab for root to run a script. The script was written for bash. I found out that cron runs under sh? When the job kicks off, it can't find ifconfig or grep, which are part of the script. Email is sent to root "ifconfig : command not found" "grep : command not found". Is it possible to make ifconfig and grep "available" to sh? Is it possible to force cron to run under bash? Does what I am asking make any sense? After finally hashing out the script, I never thought I would hit a brick wall with cron :-( Thanks, Bryan
Re: [newbie] BASHing My Crontab
Thanks to all. Especially: yacketta bero Simon Norris I wound up both setting the path at the beginning, and putting FQFNs any place a command or file was referenced. Sort of double redundant but... It ain't gota be pretty. It's just gotta work! Thanks, BRyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/12/99 09:22:43 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: Re: [newbie] BASHing My Crontab From: Ronald A. Yacketta have you but a #! /bin/bash (or is it !# dang I forget) at the very top of the script? also try gicing the full path to the command IE: /usr/sbin/ifconfig /bin/grep (above paths could be wrong, just giving examples)
