Cron job will not run, RC=2 in log file

[coopermarsh]

Hi having a problem with cron, a particular script nolonger wants to run in cron, or should i say cron no longer wants to run a particular script

the error i get is:

CMD: /local/london/scripts/check_as400_reports.sh > dev/null 2>&1
as400ftp 13075 c Thu Oct 30 09:28:00 2008
as400ftp 13075 c Thu Oct 30 09:28:01 2008 rc=2

What is a RC=2 error?

 

[coopermarsh]

forgot to add the cron entry

00 3 * * 1-5 /local/london/scripts/check_as400_reports.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

 

[KenCunningham]

Are other jobs running OK? Is cron running?

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[coopermarsh]

Other cron jobs are running fine, cron is running a stopped and restarted cron just to make sure.

 

[alray]

Are you sure the file exists? A standard Return Code = 2 usually means "No such file or directory".

Ray

Even a bad day at the races is better than a good day at the office.

 

[coopermarsh]

Yes I can run the script manually.

 

[elgrandeperro]

Either the script has an exit 2 in it or something in the script is exiting with ENOENT. Obviously, the easiest way is to change /dev/null to /tmp/myouput, and check it out.

A job can run find outside of cron, but not in cron.

Since it doesn't do a login, paths might be different, environment variables, shell variables, directory paths...
etc.