Help running shell script from cron

jdyke jdyke at azimainc.com
Fri Sep 9 06:33:08 PDT 2005


there is a possibility that the 'not found' is coming from your call to php and 
not that it can't find test.sh

either comment out that php line, or use
/full/path/to/php /home/a_user/cron/test.php

HTH
Jeff

Sandy Knight wrote:
> I am having trouble configuring my shell scripts to run under cron (user 
> level, not root). I have set up a test.sh script which sends me an 
> email, it works fine from the command line (ssh). the script is as follows:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "helloworld" | mail -s "helloworld" user at domain.com
> php /home/a_user/cron/test.php
> 
> 
> As you can see I am also trying to get a php script to run (this is my 
> ultimate aim).
> 
> My crontab is as follows:
> 
> # /home/a_user
> #
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> PATH=/home/a_user/cron
> HOME=/home/a_user
> #
> #
> #minute hour    mday    month   wday    command
> #
> #
> */5 * * * *   /home/a_user/cron/test.sh
> 
> 
> I have done the following:
> 
> $ pwd
> 
> /home/a_user
> 
> $ crontab cron/myCronTab
> 
> $ crontab -l
> 
> {output - see above}
> 
> 
> Crontab is trying to run my script as I receive an email every 5 minutes 
> saying:
> 
> /home/a_user/cron/test.sh: not found
> 
> 
> The permissions for the scripts are:
> 
> $ ls -lt cron/
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 a_user  vusers   322 Sep  9 12:27 myCronTab
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 a_user  vusers   107 Sep  9 12:16 test.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 a_user  vusers    99 Sep  4 17:58 test.php
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Sandy
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