try removing #!/bin/bash
----------------------------------------------- who watches the watchmen? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars Bjarby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 9:22 AM Subject: Problems with a bash script and cron > Hi! > > This question isn't really Debian specific, but as I use Debian I thought > this was a good forum. I've got this small bash script that works perfectly > when I run it from the shell, but it won't work when I try to run it > through cron and I don't get any error messages from the cron daemon either > (maybe I'm looking in the wrong places). > > The script below downloads the specified URL and generates and MD5 sum for > the HTML source. If this is the first time the script is run it saves the > MD5 sum in a file otherwise the MD5 sum is checked against the old one. If > they differ, the script will send an e-mail to me. > > (yes, I know this script really isn't useful for slashdot as the page is > different every time...but it's good for debuging) > > ----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<-- -------- > #!/bin/bash > > EMAIL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > MD5FILE="/home/laban/tmp/chkwww.md5" > URL="http://www.slashdot.org"; > DATE=`date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"` > SUBJECT="Update - $DATE" > LOG="FALSE" > LOGFILE="/home/laban/tmp/chkwww.log" > > ############################################### > > if [ "$LOG" = "TRUE" ]; then echo -e "$DATE\t$0\tChecking for > updates..." >>$LOGFILE; fi > > MD5SUM_NOW=`lynx --source $URL | md5sum` > > if [ ! -e $MD5FILE ]; then > echo $MD5SUM_NOW > $MD5FILE > exit > fi > > MD5SUM_DISK=`head -1 $MD5FILE` > echo $MD5SUM_NOW > $MD5FILE > > if [ $MD5SUM_NOW != $MD5SUM_DISK ]; then > echo "$URL has been updated." | mail -s "$SUBJECT" $EMAIL > if [ "$LOG" = "TRUE" ]; then echo -e "$DATE\t$0\tPage updated, > notification sent to $EMAIL." >>$LOGFILE; fi > else > if [ "$LOG" = "TRUE" ]; then echo -e "$DATE\t$0\tPage not > updated." >>$LOGFILE; fi > fi > > if [ "$LOG" = "TRUE" ]; then echo -e "$DATE\t$0\tExiting..." >>$LOGFILE; fi > ----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<-- -------- > > My crontab looks like this: > > 0,15,30,45 * * * /home/laban/bin/chkwww > > Any ideas? > > .//Laban - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Public PGP-key available > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
