On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 05:43:03PM -0400, System Administrator wrote: > On 28 May 2019 at 15:14, Carlos Aguilar wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am having lots of problems to execute a shell script at boot time. > > > > My crontab is as follows; > > >> > > SHELL=/bin/ksh > > > > @reboot $HOME/bin/app-ferre > > << > > My shell script is as follows: > > >> > > #!/bin/ksh > > > > lua=/usr/local/bin/lua53 > > > > for f in $(ls /home/alberto/app/service-*.lua) ;do > > echo 'Initializing' $f '\n' > > $lua $f & > > done > > >> > > > > Thanks for any help or advice, > > > > // Carlos > > > > Hi Carlos, > > The $HOME environment variable is defined by the interactive shell for > login sessions. Moreover, unless you regularly log into your system as > root -- which is the user that kicks off cron tasks and runs them > unless changed with su or doas -- it does not point where you are > expecting (*your* home folder). > > When specifying crontab entries, it is best to spell out the program > path. > > -Jacob.
Assuming that this is being run from the correct users' crontab, $HOME would be set correctly. Cron sets $HOME. There is too much information missing from the original post that it makes it difficult to debug (any mentioning of what the actual issue is, for example). -- Kusalananda Sweden
