executing a shell script in crontab

[pearlofperls]

Im trying to execute a shell script in crontab, however the script needs an option to be specified to work. I dont know how to get this to work.

- I have called the shell script with option as entry in the crontab

- I have nested the shell script with option in another shell sciprt and called that one from crontab and have no luck either.

Any suggestions?

 

[columb]

Are you sure that it the option that is causing it to fail. there's no reason why a crontab line like

* * * * * /usr/local/bin/myscript -flag

shoudn't work.

The normal reason why cron entries fail is that the shell variables aren't set properly. When you run a script from the command line all the settings from /etc/profile, ~/.profile etc are available. When you run from cron they aren't. Try adding the line

. ~/.profile

somewhere near the top of your script or try

* * * * * su - root -c "/usr/local/bin/myscript -flag"

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