crontab not working 2

[gatetec]

Under root's crontab, I have:

30 0 * * * /usr/es/sbin/cluster/utilities/clsnapshot -c -i -n 'app1_'`date1` -d 'app1_'`date1`

This works fine if I run it manually, but, under crontab, it doesn't work by itself.

"date1" is the alias I created.

root # date1
08Apr081542Tue

Please advise.

thx much

 

[kierong]

Under cron you don't inherit the users environment you need to source his .profile to re-establish his environment and the aliases you set.

 

[gatetec]

root:> more .profile

alias date1="date +%y%h%d%H%M%a"

root:/usr/local/bin> more date1

#!/usr/bin/ksh
date +%y%h%d%H%M%a

I have put it under /usr/local/bin as well.
What am I missing here?

thx much

 

[khalidaaa]

Forward the output of that command to a file and check it for errors!

30 0 * * * /usr/es/sbin/cluster/utilities/clsnapshot -c -i -n 'app1_'`date1` -d 'app1_'`date1` 1>/tmp/cllog.txt 2>&1

Regards,
Khalid

 

[p5wizard]

cron probably doesn't look any further than the dirs listed in the PATH variable as specified in /etc/environment. So if /usr/local/bin isn't there, cron won't find your date1 script.


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[gatetec]

thx so much!

/usr/local/bin wasn't there indeed.