Shell scripting woes.

[Mathias Haas]

Julien Gabel wrote:

>>>Hello guys! I have two questions about shellscripts:
>>>2) The same backup job - is written as a bash script, and it works
>>>perfectly when run by hand, but it won't run as a cron job.
>>>      
>>>
>>Are you using a full path in the shebang at the top of the script?
>>Such as:
>>
>>#!/bin/sh
>>or
>>#!/usr/local/bin/bash
>>    
>>
>
>And more generally, is the ${PATH} variable set correctly according
>to all the tools/utility used along your script?
>  
>
As a reply to both answers, here's a script that wont' run:
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
echo start > test.txt

...and here is bash:
[root at p3-550 /usr/local/etc]>> whereis bash
bash: /usr/local/bin/bash

this is /var/log/cron
Feb 24 19:20:00 p3-550 /usr/sbin/cron[27988]: (root) CMD 
(/usr/local/etc/test.sh)

This is the crontab entry:
* * * * * /usr/local/etc/test.sh
(At the moment, I have no shell parameters or other parameters in 
crontab, another crontab-job runs fine, but that's an executable file.)


/mathias