Re: [tlug] scripts not running in cron.hourly, etc.

[Romans Malinovskis <romaninsh@example.com>]

> I have recently tried experimenting with running administrative  
> scripts
> from cron.daily and cron.hourly instead of my regular cron file  
> (crontab
> -e). But the scripts I put into these folders don't seem to run.

Note that when called from cron, your PATH variable will be set to  
only /bin and /sbin or something like that. It was my common mistake  
to call
executable, such as "perl" without full path and it would fail. Some  
more useful tips

#!/bin/bash -x

would turn on trace mode, it will verbosely output everything it's  
going to execute.

/path/to/script.pl > /tmp/run_trace 2>&1

this would output stdout and stderr into the file. First of all,  
check if file is created, then look into the content. Don't leave  
it's like this, it's a security hole to rely
on define filename in /tmp/ (read about mktemp if it bothers you)


hope this helps,
romans