Indeed. Brain fade comes with age - and long weekends with the 2 year old boy...
Kurt On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 14:14, Gary Gatten <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah Pete, kinda need that huh. Kurt, If that turns out to be the only > issue, don't feel bad - I've forgotten it myself several times! I'm sure > many others have as well! > > G > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of pete wright > Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 3:25 PM > To: Kurt Buff > Cc: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >> All, >> >> I've googled a bunch, read some freebsd.org docs, and just can't >> figure this out. >> >> I have a script that should read the current date into a variable, >> append the time/date stamp at the beginning of the file created with >> the date in the variable, do a bunch of cURL stuff, then append a >> time/date stamp at the end of the file. >> >> It works if I run it manually, but not from cron. >> >> Here are the batchfile and the cron entry: >> >> ----------begin script---------- >> dt=`/bin/date "+%Y-%m-%d"` >> /bin/date > /root/$dt-external1.txt >> /usr/local/bin/curl -K /root/urls.txt >> /root/$dt-external1.txt >> /bin/date >> /root/$dt-external1.txt >> ----------end script---------- >> >> ----------begin crontab---------- >> 15 12 * * * /root/do-curl.sh >> ----------end crontab---------- >> >> I'm doing all of this as root, as you can see. >> >> The job launches - I can see an entry for cURL in top - but no file in /root. >> >> I've tried several variations on the first line of the script, but I'm >> getting nowhere, though I'm sure it's something stupidly simple that >> I'm missing. >> >> What am I missing? > > #!/bin/sh ? > > -pete > > > > -- > pete wright > www.nycbug.org > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > > > > > > <font size="1"> > <div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in > 0in 1.0pt 0in'> > </div> > "This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient > and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. > If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that > any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email > and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by > return email and delete this email from your system." > </font> > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
