Re: Script to email details not working in cron

2015-01-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Hartge wrote: > You don't need the manually invoke /bin/bash if you just add > "#!/bin/bash" as the first line of your shell script, which Don already > pointed out: > >> 3) It may not be executable. Yes. Make sure it is executable. chmod a+x /home/user/bin/email-script Bob P.S. Persona

Re: Script to email details not working in cron

2015-01-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Manikandan M wrote: > I couldn't find why the script is not working in cron. Just replaced the > crontab entry with the following and it worked > * 9 * * * /bin/bash /user/bin/email-script This will run the script _every minute_ on the ninth hour. I don't think this is what you really want. It

Re: Script to email details not working in cron

2015-01-03 Thread Manikandan M
Hi, I couldn't find why the script is not working in cron. Just replaced the crontab entry with the following and it worked * 9 * * * /bin/bash /user/bin/email-script Thanks everyone for your help. Regards, Mani On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jan 2015, Ma

Re: Script to email details not working in cron

2015-01-02 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 02 Jan 2015, Manikandan M wrote: > I have written a small script to email (using ssmpt) some details, and > scheduled it in crontab. The script is running as per time mentioned in the > cron but ssmtp is not sending the mail. please find the details below. > > user@host ~ $ cat bin/email-s

Re: Script to email details not working in cron

2015-01-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Manikandan M wrote: > I have written a small script to email (using ssmpt) some details, and > scheduled it in crontab. The script is running as per time mentioned in the > cron but ssmtp is not sending the mail. please find the details below. A couple of details to provide background to understan

Re: Script to email details not working in cron

2015-01-02 Thread Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 06:39:27PM +, Manikandan M wrote: Are other scripts running fine? Can you throw a silly date >>/tmp/imalive into it and see? Does ssmtp (I'm unfamilar with it) requies some special env-var that can be unset when running from Cron? -- People are like potatos. They d

Re: Script to email details not working in cron

2015-01-02 Thread Manikandan M
Thanks for the quick response Patrick. I have given the full path for all the executables in the script. Still i'm not getting the email. The first line of the script works which updates the details-file. The third line of the script works which updates the status of the email operation. Both the d

Re: Script to email details not working in cron

2015-01-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Manikandan M wrote: > Hi, > > I have written a small script to email (using ssmpt) some details, and > scheduled it in crontab. The script is running as per time mentioned in the > cron but ssmtp is not sending the mail. please find the details below. > > user@host