(oops, accidentally hit send) On 05/30/2011 01:45 PM, Marcel Svitalsky wrote: > The problem is that when run by cron on my newly installed Ubuntu > 10.04.2 I don't get the output in mail but only 'expr: syntax error' > line instead. > > Obviously I thought there was some error in the script at first, but > after trying and checking I've found none. Besides, the script runs OK > from command line and the same script runs OK from cron on Ubuntu 8.04.
I only briefly browsed your script, but judging from the error I'm nearly certain it has something to do with variable expansion. Running a script successfully from the command line does not guarantee that cron will run it successfully, because the former may involve many stages cron does not perfom. Examples include: mounting of home dir, parsing of dotfiles, having an X session running, etc. In your case, I assume there was an `expr $foo $bar` somewhere in the part of the script you sanitized. Is my assumption correct? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/790173 Title: Cron doesn't send output properly -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
