cronjobs

[asianadmin]

Hi X-perts,

I created a cron job using crontab -e. Then I input all the schedule and where the scripts can be found when the jobs start to kick in. I tested manually each and every script. It works just fine when i execute it manually. However, when it inside the cron jobs. It just won't run. Can someone tell me what is going on with my cron jobs?

Thanks for your help in advance,
asianadmin

[Roxoff]

It's likely to be a permissions issue. Make sure your cron scripts are owned and executable by the person whom the cron job is running as.

[asianadmin]

those scripts files owned by oracle which is the same owner of the cron job. Becuase i log in as oracle and execute this command: crontab -e

[crazy01]

I had an issue similar to this, i had my script.sh file and to run it manually I would

./script.sh

to run it in a cron i had to remove the . so my crontab looked like this

* * * * * /scripts/script.sh

(note that there is no .)


hope this helps.

[yancek]

I would suggest you post your entry from the crontab file so it can be viewed. Someone might see an obvious problem.

[Doggboy77]

have you checked out the cron logs in /var/log/cron it should give you an error message

[sed_addictive]

start from basics -- check if the cron service is running!