Shell script in crontab cannot write files into FreeBSD's filesystem.

Supote Leelasuppakorn pjn0211 at hotmail.com
Wed Dec 5 00:47:15 PST 2007


 
Hi all,
 
   Please anybody help me, I faced the problem with my "crontab". I tried to run a shell script which will fetch webpage and save it toa directory by using wget but after few minute I cannot see any filein such directory
 
   Below are content of shell script, my crontab and also
file's permission listing.
 
###################
# The output of `crontab -l`###################
SHELL=/bin/shMAILTO=pjn*       *       *       *       *       . /home/pjn/parseGP/fetchPage.sh
 
###################
# filename: fetchPage.sh###################
#!/bin/sh
TIMESTAMP=`date "+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"`LOGPATH="/home/pjn/parseGP/logs"
/usr/local/bin/wget --no-cache -a ${LOGPATH}/fetch.log -O ${LOGPATH}/${TIMESTAMP}.html http://www.blahblah.com
 
###################
# Files' permission###################
blahHost$blahHost$ls -ltrd parseGPdrwxr-xr-x  3 pjn  pjn  512 Dec  5 14:27 parseGPblahHost$ls -ltr parseGP/total 4drwxr-xr-x  2 pjn  pjn  512 Dec  5 15:11 logs-rwxr--r--  1 pjn  pjn  226 Dec  5 15:21 fetchPage.shblahHost$ls -ltr parseGP/logs/total 0-rw-r--r--  1 pjn  pjn  0 Dec  5 15:14 fetch.logblahHost$
Thanks in advance,Pote


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