Crontab Entry 1

[jehixson]

I have written a small script to run on our servers. I wanted to place it in the crontab so it will run automatically. When I place the entry in the crontab, it does not run. This is what I have entered.

00 13 * * 4 /weekly

I want the script to run at 1pm on wednesdays.

The file is located in the root directory and I placed the #!/bin/sh in the first line of the script. It is not actually a script moreless just a few UNIX commands checking disk status and things like this.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[stefanwagner]

perhaps the double 0 has to be a single one?
wednsday is 3 on my (linux) crontab.

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[Loonygirl]

Check whether the actual file itself is executable - I had a similar problem which drove me mad for days, until I realised it was a read-only file!

Sarah

 

[KenCunningham]

As well as Sarah's suggestion, use the full pathname of the commands in question, as cron uses a very limited environment which might not incluse all environment variables (particularly $PATH) to enable you to run the script. As far as Stefan's post is concerned, the double 0 is OK, but as he says, on most systems/flavours Wednesday is day 3 (0 being Sunday and so on). hth.

 

[edfair]

What OS? Some SCO have a built in problem that shows up the same way.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[jehixson]

Thank you everyone for your help. I did change the date to a 3 to run on Wednesdays however, I have to change the file permissions to 750 to make it executable. I tested and it runs gfreat.

Again thanks for your help.