cron job not running

[Ski K2]

11.1 64 bit

Can anyone tell me why this cron job is not running?

The script runs fine from the users shell prompt.

crontab -e

# (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie
Exp $)
1 16 * * * sh /home/pathp/Navicat/start_navicat /schedule "Rack 5 to
Local All"

???


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[ken yap]

If you had any commands in the shell script "schedule" that depended on
your $PATH or $HOME, they would fail to run.

You should have received email containing any output from the job. Have
you looked for the email?


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[Ski K2]

I have not looked for email.

I'll do that.

Thanks


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[ab@novell.com]

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Agreed.... start by changing 'sh' to '/bin/sh' (or '/bin/bash') just to
be sure, and then also check for that e-mail. The /var/log/messages
file should also have output from when it was attempted (if it was
attempted). Set to '* * * * *' for testing, or something that runs
more-often than once per day.

Good luck.





ken yap wrote:
> If you had any commands in the shell script "schedule" that depended on
> your $PATH or $HOME, they would fail to run.
>
> You should have received email containing any output from the job. Have
> you looked for the email?
>
>
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[Ski K2]

ken_yap;1927067 Wrote:
> If you had any commands in the shell script "schedule" that depended on
> your $PATH or $HOME, they would fail to run.
>
> You should have received email containing any output from the job. Have
> you looked for the email?

If, during my Suse install, I ticked the box to receive system mail
where would I find it?

I don't have a /var/log/mail.

The script does use $HOME and other system variables but if the script
runs OK at this users shell then why would the users crontab not run it
OK?


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[Ski K2]

I'll try /bin/sh

Thanks ab


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[ken yap]

The mail goes to /var/mail/<user>.

If you didn't have postfix running the mail might have been lost. You
can capture the output of the cron job by appending

> /tmp/schedule.log 2>&1

to the line.

In a cron job, various variables that are set in a normal interactive
session are not. There is no $HOME because there is no login. And $PATH
will be the system default.


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[Ski K2]

ken_yap;1927513 Wrote:
> The mail goes to /var/mail/<user>.
>
> If you didn't have postfix running the mail might have been lost. You
> can capture the output of the cron job by appending
>
> > /tmp/schedule.log 2>&1
>
> to the line.
>
> In a cron job, various variables that are set in a normal interactive
> session are not. There is no $HOME because there is no login. And $PATH
> will be the system default.

/bin/sh doesn't seem to run either.

Changing the crontab entry to

25 17 * * *
/home/pathp/Navicat/start_navicat /schedule "Rack 5 to Local All"

gets it to appear in var/log/messages calling the script but it does
not run. Perhaps due to the missing variables?

This same script ran fine in 10.3 using a native linux version of this
application.

The current version running is a winblows app running using wine

Here's a copy of the script


Code:
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#!/bin/bash
# This is a script modified from Picasa wrapper script to launch Navicat.exe

cd `dirname "$0"`
navicat_root=`pwd`

# Wine environment required
export PATH="$navicat_root/wine/bin":"$navicat_root":$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$navicat_root/wine/lib":"$navicat_root/lib":$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export WINEDLLPATH="$navicat_root/wine/lib/wine"
export WINELOADER="$navicat_root/wine/bin/wine"
export WINESERVER="$navicat_root/wine/bin/wineserver"
export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.navicat
export WINEDLLOVERRIDES="msxml3=n" # use native msxml3
# find the x window server location at [current machine]:[displaynumber=0]:[screennumber=0] to run x window application
# used in crontab schedule part of navicat
export DISPLAY=":0.0"

# create directories
[ -d "$WINEPREFIX" ] || mkdir -p "$WINEPREFIX"
[ -d "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c" ] || mkdir -p "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c"
[ -d "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program Files" ] || mkdir -p "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program Files"
[ -d "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows" ] || mkdir -p "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows"
[ -d "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/temp" ] || mkdir -p "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/temp"
[ -d "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/inf.done" ] || mkdir -p "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/inf.done"
[ -d "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices" ] || mkdir -p "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices"

# check integrity of system directories
for system_dir in \
drive_c/windows/fonts \
drive_c/windows/inf \
drive_c/windows/system \
drive_c/windows/system32 \
; do
if [ -h "$WINEPREFIX/$system_dir" ] ; then
if [ `stat --dereference --format %i "$WINEPREFIX/$system_dir"` = `stat --dereference --format %i "$navicat_root/wine/$system_dir"` ] ; then
continue;
fi
[ -d "$WINEPREFIX/$system_dir" ] || rm -f "$WINEPREFIX/$system_dir"
fi

[ -d "$WINEPREFIX/$system_dir" ] || ln -s "$navicat_root/wine/$system_dir" "$WINEPREFIX/$system_dir"

done

# create Navicat directories
[ -h "$WINEPREFIX/Navicat" ] && rm -f "$WINEPREFIX/Navicat"
[ -d "$WINEPREFIX/Navicat" ] || mkdir -p "$WINEPREFIX/Navicat"
(cd "$navicat_root/Navicat";
for x in * ; do
oldlink="`pwd`/$x"
newlink="$WINEPREFIX/Navicat/$x"
if [ -h "$newlink" ] ; then
if [ `stat --dereference --format %i "$oldlink"` = `stat --dereference --format %i "$newlink"` ] ; then
continue;
fi
[ -d "$newlink" ] || rm -f "$newlink"
fi

[ -d "$newlink" ] || ln -s "$oldlink" "$newlink"

done
)

# create wine emulated devices
if [ -h "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/c:" ] ; then
[ -d "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/c:" ] || rm -f "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/c:"
fi
[ -d "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/c:" ] || ln -s "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/" "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/c:"

if [ -h "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/z:" ] ; then
[ -d "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/z:" ] || rm -f "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/z:"
fi
[ -d "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/z:" ] || ln -s / "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/z:"

if [ -h "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/y:" ] ; then
[ -d "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/y:" ] || rm -f "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/y:"
fi
if [ -d "$HOME" ] ; then
[ -d "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/y:" ] || ln -s "$HOME" "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/y:"
fi

# hide error/stdout message
if test "z$WINEDEBUG" = z ; then
exec >/tmp/navicat.output 2>&1
fi

# install inf
for infcmd in wine.inf/DefaultInstall ; do
inffile=`echo $infcmd | cut -d '/' -f 1`
inftype=`echo $infcmd | cut -d '/' -f 2`

runreg=0
if [ -f "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/inf.done/$inffile" ] ; then
diff -q "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/inf/$inffile" "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/inf.done/$inffile" >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
runreg=1
fi
else
runreg=1
fi

if [ $runreg -gt 0 ] ; then
"${WINELOADER:-wine}" rundll32.exe setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection $inftype 128 $inffile
cp "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/inf/$inffile" "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/inf.done/$inffile"
fi
done

# run Navicat.exe
exec "${WINELOADER:-wine}" "$navicat_root/Navicat/Navicat.exe" "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4" "$5" "$6" "$7"
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Any ideas on getting it to run as a cron would be appreciated!


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[ken yap]

Is this your personal crontab, edited with crontab -e, or the system
crontab, /etc/crontab? In the second case you need to specify the user
in the 6th field, like this:

25 17 * * * pathp /home/pathp/...


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[Ski K2]

Personal.

I'm the only user on the system.

I open a terminal from gnome as personal user, not root

crontab -e


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