Re: Why following ksh script not works in crontab?
>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
Why are you testing the time when it's run at a specific time from cron
anyway ???
do you not trust cron to get the time right ???
Danny Stringer
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