On 28 May 2019 at 15:14, Carlos Aguilar wrote: > Hi, > > I am having lots of problems to execute a shell script at boot time. > > My crontab is as follows; > >> > SHELL=/bin/ksh > > @reboot $HOME/bin/app-ferre > << > My shell script is as follows: > >> > #!/bin/ksh > > lua=/usr/local/bin/lua53 > > for f in $(ls /home/alberto/app/service-*.lua) ;do > echo 'Initializing' $f '\n' > $lua $f & > done > >> > > Thanks for any help or advice, > > // Carlos >
Hi Carlos, The $HOME environment variable is defined by the interactive shell for login sessions. Moreover, unless you regularly log into your system as root -- which is the user that kicks off cron tasks and runs them unless changed with su or doas -- it does not point where you are expecting (*your* home folder). When specifying crontab entries, it is best to spell out the program path. -Jacob.
