Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?
Walter Hurry
walterhurry at gmail.com
Tue Jun 12 02:26:09 UTC 2012
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:10:21 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base.
>
> What's in your shell scripts?
Thanks for the quick response.
$ pkg_info|grep bash
bash-4.2.28 The GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell
$ which bash
/bin/bash
$
$ less $HOME/bin/exports.sh
#!/bin/bash
LOG=$HOME/log/exports.log
logger -t walterh-cronjob Exports started
echo Exports started at `date` > $LOG
rm $HOME/postgresql/*
psql packages -f $HOME/sql/exports.sql
cd $HOME/postgresql
tar cfz postgresql.tgz *
rm *csv
echo Exports finished at `date` >> $LOG
logger -t walterh-cronjob Exports finished
/home/walterh/bin/exports.sh (END)
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