Probably working too hard for this cron question

[Daniel Feenberg]

I forgot to send it. I just did.

dan

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Kurt Buff wrote:

> Indeed. Brain fade comes with age - and long weekends with the 2 year old boy...
>
> Kurt
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 14:14, Gary Gatten <Ggatten at waddell.com> wrote:
>> Yeah Pete, kinda need that huh.  Kurt, If that turns out to be the only issue, don't feel bad - I've forgotten it myself several times!  I'm sure many others have as well!
>>
>> G
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of pete wright
>> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 3:25 PM
>> To: Kurt Buff
>> Cc: FreeBSD Questions
>> Subject: Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I've googled a bunch, read some freebsd.org docs, and just can't
>>> figure this out.
>>>
>>> I have a script that should read the current date into a variable,
>>> append the time/date stamp at the beginning of the file created with
>>> the date in the variable, do a bunch of cURL stuff, then append a
>>> time/date stamp at the end of the file.
>>>
>>> It works if I run it manually, but not from cron.
>>>
>>> Here are the batchfile and the cron entry:
>>>
>>> ----------begin script----------
>>> dt=`/bin/date "+%Y-%m-%d"`
>>> /bin/date > /root/$dt-external1.txt
>>> /usr/local/bin/curl -K /root/urls.txt >> /root/$dt-external1.txt
>>> /bin/date >> /root/$dt-external1.txt
>>> ----------end script----------
>>>
>>> ----------begin crontab----------
>>> 15 12 * * *        /root/do-curl.sh
>>> ----------end crontab----------
>>>
>>> I'm doing all of this as root, as you can see.
>>>
>>> The job launches - I can see an entry for cURL in top - but no file in /root.
>>>
>>> I've tried several variations on the first line of the script, but I'm
>>> getting nowhere, though I'm sure it's something stupidly simple that
>>> I'm missing.
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>
>> #!/bin/sh ?
>>
>> -pete
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> pete wright
>> www.nycbug.org
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