Cron Job Issue

[mehtalalit]

Hi,

I have the following jobs configured to run every 15 minutes
0,15,30,45 * * * * . /home/decimal/sms_engine/OutSmsProcessor.sh
0,15,30,45 * * * * . /home/decimal/sms_engine/InSmsProcessor.sh

when i run these commands from command line they run fine and processing happens as expected. The cron log shows that these jobs are running fine

command tail /var/log/cron shows the following

Oct 29 03:45:01 services crond[7416]: (decimal) CMD (. /home/decimal/sms_engine/InSmsProcessor.sh)
Oct 29 03:45:01 services crond[7419]: (decimal) CMD (. /home/decimal/sms_engine/OutSmsProcessor.sh)

In spite of this no processing is being done by the program.

Could someone please help

Thanks a ton in advance.

[robertdaleweir]

Hi mehtalalit
I notice that there is a decimal and a space prior to your script invocation. The . is unnecesary, but if you do have it it must precede the / with no space between them. Because you are using a complete path the decimal is not necessary. Cheers...
Robert

[Lakshmipathi]

you are using a complete path the decimal is not necessary.

Yes,I would agree with Robert.
If problem persists,check the permission bits of .sh file. - make sure user has appropriate rights and also make sure .sh is an executable file.

[mehtalalit]

The permissions on the .sh file are

-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 226 Oct 29 23:32 OutSmsProcessor.sh*

The crontab entry has been configured as

*/15 * * * * /bin/bash /home/decimal/sms_engine/OutSmsProcessor.sh

I have also tried

*/15 * * * * /bin/sh /home/decimal/sms_engine/OutSmsProcessor.sh

Nothing seems to be working

Lalit

[Lakshmipathi]

Is log file still showing same error messages?

I would suggest you to try a simple script

#cat simple.sh
date > /home/lg/log.txt

just places current time in a file.

Edit crontab,so that script runs every 2 minutes .

*/2 * * * * lg /bin/bash /home/lg/simple.sh

After every two minutes , /home/lg/log.txt will have current time.

Does this work?

if so ,then there must be some issue your OutSmsProcessor.sh file content.

[mehtalalit]

Thank you. It started working. I had to specify complete path for java command i.e /usr/java/jre/bin/java instead of just java