Sounds like a path problem to me!
Lars Bjarby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : 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 -- *********************** Running Debian Linux *********************** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * ************* pgp public key on keyservers everywhere? *************/ --
