Re: [tlug] Crontab not executing

["Nguyen Vu Hung" <vuhung16plus@example.com>]

On 3/25/07, Dave M G <martin@example.com> wrote:
> TLUG,
>
> I have a shell script that I want to run once daily at 12 PM (noon)
> every day. The shell script is of my own creation, and it works when I
> execute it from the command line.
>
> However, it's not successfully being executed by cron.
>
> Here is what I put into my crontab file:
>
> 0 12 * * * sh /home/dave/myShellScript.sh
>
> Have I messed up my syntax or something?

Something you should check:

1. crond is running ( ps -ef | grep cron )
2. delete "sh", it is reduntant.
3. make sure "head -n 1/home/dave/myShellScript.sh" is "#!/bin/sh"

2., 3. is equivelent to Robbins' solution: replace "sh" with its full
path "/bin/sh"

HTH

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