How can I make the mv, and rm commands excecutable by system? where I can add the path to this commands for System???
This is the hint I have been looking for since Dec 07!!!! thanks in advance! Eric. Re: Script Doesn't Work Correctly with Cron From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu> To: Buck Turgidson <jc_va at hotmail dot com> Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:26:48 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Script Doesn't Work Correctly with Cron Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Buck Turgidson wrote: > I have a script that works when I run it from the command line, but when it > is executed with cron, it produces a null file. I am sure that cron is > executing it because it creates the file. It is just not populated. > > Here is the script. I want to query an Oracle database every couple of > minutes, capture some data, and append it to a flat file. I want to keep > 2000 lines in the flat file. > > Can someone spot the error? Again, it works run from the command line. > > #!/bin/bash > sqlplus -s scott@mydb < up @ss.sql | grep -v "Enter password:" >> > monsql.lst > tail -2000 monsql.lst > montemp.lst > rm -f monsql.lst > mv montemp.lst monsql.lst This is probably not cron-specific, but try redirecting stderr to a file (by using "2>filename") to see if the script produces any errors. Also, are all the programs you use (sqlplus, grep, tail, rm, mv) in the path for the user that cron runs as (most likely "system")? Are they executable by "system"? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
