Re: Why following ksh script not works in crontab?

We had similar problems. When running from crontab, the UNIX system bypasses the standard execution of /etc/profile and ~/.profile. All the PATH and informix variables necessary to run the job successfully are therefore not set from the crontab. You probably have them setup in your ~/.profile for your session. Set these variables explicitly in your shell script. If you have many such cron jobs, consider writing a common shell script that exports all relevant environment variables and then calls other subshells based on a parameter passed to it. Hope this helps. >The following ksh script works well in command line. >But not work in crontab, why? > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >#!/bin/ksh > ># Informix back up logical log and will create a file logical.log > >ontape -a << EOF>^M >y^M >EOF > ># where ^M is return input in vi by type ctrl-V and Enter >sleep 3 > >hour=`date +%H` > >if [[ $hour -ge 9 && $hour -lt 12 ]] >then cp logical.log logical_tape1.log >else cp logical.log logical_tape2.log >fi >cat /dev/null > logical.log >------------------------------------------------------------------- >The above script runs perfectly if on command line. But when I schedual >in the crontab, I always got 0 (zero) size of logical_tape1/2.log. It >seems