Script Problem

[ponetguy2]

I created a script which counts how many httpd connections we have. I scheduled a cronjob to run the script every hour.

The problem is, I get the time and date on the output file, but I don't get the netstat count. When I run the script manually it works, but w/cronjob does not.
Any ideas? Please advise.

Here is the script:

#!/bin/sh


netstat -n | grep 192.168.1.1.443 > /secure/connection_out.txt
echo "==================================" >> /secure/connection_report.txt
date >> /secure/connection_report.txt
wc -l connection_out.txt >> /secure/connection_report.txt
echo "==================================" >> /secure/connection_report.txt

exit 0

 

[cspilman]

Specify full paths to all the commands in your script if your are going to call it from cron.

Reason: Cron doesn't have an environment so you will either need to source the users environment the cron job is running under or specify full paths in your script.


Regards,
Chuck

 

[Annihilannic]

You shouldn't need full paths to any of those commands because cron does have a minimal PATH defined which does include /usr/bin, where all of those commands are located.

The problem is that you haven't specified the full path to connection_out.txt after the wc command.

Annihilannic.

 

[ponetguy2]

thank you again for the replies. you guys are great!!!

i made the changes. hopefully it works.

 

[ponetguy2]

it worked!!! you guys are the best!!!

 

[elgrandeperro]

If running apache, mod_status and the /server-status URL give a great visual representation of the status of your webserver. One could "wget" it and parse it for a better view of what is happening.

gene