[vox-tech] Problem running cronjob

[Ken Bloom]

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The output of cronjobs is mailed to you.
Turn off the cron job quickly (so you don't waste disk space) and check =20
your mail with the mail command (several other commands, like mutt, may =20
also work if you haven't reconfigured them for your real email)

On 2004.04.09 23:29, Soumyadeep nandi wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
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> I want to set some task on the cronjob. As such I
> edited the crontab file as bellow:
> */1 * * * * echo "Hello"
> */1 * * * * /home/soumya/test.sh
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> Here I want to print Hello in every minute and my test
> shell script should execute every minute.
> But it is not executing neither the Hello nor the
> shell script.
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> If I run the crontab -l command I can see the commands
> are there in the cronjob as bellow:
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and
> reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.16950 installed on Sat Apr 10 22:34:22
> 2004)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17
> 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
> */1 * * * * echo "Hello"
> */1 * * * * /home/soumya/test.sh
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> My cron file in /var/log/ has these updates:
> Apr 10 22:34:13 bic_server2 crontab[16950]: (soumya)
> BEGIN EDIT (soumya)
> Apr 10 22:34:22 bic_server2 crontab[16950]: (soumya)
> REPLACE (soumya)
> Apr 10 22:34:22 bic_server2 crontab[16950]: (soumya)
> END EDIT (soumya)
> Apr 10 22:34:56 bic_server2 crontab[16952]: (soumya)
> LIST (soumya)
> Apr 10 22:35:00 bic_server2 crond[794]: (soumya)
> RELOAD (cron/soumya)
> Apr 10 22:35:00 bic_server2 CROND[16954]: (root) CMD
> (/usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg)
> Apr 10 22:35:00 bic_server2 CROND[16956]: (mailman)
> CMD (/usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/gate_news)
> Apr 10 22:35:00 bic_server2 CROND[16958]: (soumya) CMD
> (/home/soumya/test.sh)
> Apr 10 22:35:00 bic_server2 CROND[16962]: (soumya) CMD
> (echo "Hello")
> Apr 10 22:36:00 bic_server2 CROND[16969]: (soumya) CMD
> (/home/soumya/test.sh)
> Apr 10 22:36:00 bic_server2 CROND[16971]: (soumya) CMD
> (echo "Hello")
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> I have bash shell set in my environment.
> I have tried changing the shell to sh, but still no
> success.
> I am using redhat 9.
> I have changed the mode of the file to
> 755(-rwxr-xr-x).
> I can run test.sh file as ./test.sh.
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>  Could you please tell me where I am doing the
> mistake, and why it is not executing the commands.
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> Regards
> Soumyadeep
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