trouble with CRON

trouble with CRON

[Shroyer-Matchan, Cherie (SHROYECL)]

I am having a problem getting a CRON job to run in LINUX 6.1.  

I added this line to my crontab using crontab -e logged in as root.

0 0 * * * ps -ef |awk '$8=="./ezproxy" {print "kill -9 " $2}' | sh; cd
/usr/local/ezproxy; ./ezproxy & 

This line worked on other LINUX and UNIX installations.  It also works from
the command prompt.
It fails to run.

Any ideas???

Re: trouble with CRON

[Scott Taylor]

At 05:24 AM 16/04/2002, Shroyer-Matchan, Cherie (SHROYECL) wrote:
>I am having a problem getting a CRON job to run in LINUX 6.1.
>
>I added this line to my crontab using crontab -e logged in as root.
>
>0 0 * * * ps -ef |awk '$8=="./ezproxy" {print "kill -9 " $2}' | sh; cd
>/usr/local/ezproxy; ./ezproxy &
>
>This line worked on other LINUX and UNIX installations.  It also works from
>the command prompt.
>It fails to run.
>
>Any ideas???

Any error logs?   Check your root mail, or better yet, add an alias in 
/etc/aliases for "root:  YourNormalUserID" and run newaliases.

Make sure there are no blank lines in your crontab, use # for spacing lines 
and no blank line at the end of the file.  If this is the case, you should 
at least get an error message from the cron daemon in root's email.

One last thing, you might want to make this a script and have cron run the 
script, instead of a bunch of piped commands in your crontab file.

HTH

Scott.

Re: trouble with CRON

[Kyle]

  One other thing to realize is that cron doesn't run
.profile or .bashrc.  Sometimes your PATH, as well as
other variables, needs to be setup.

--- "Shroyer-Matchan, Cherie (SHROYECL)"
<SHROYECL@UCMAIL.UC.EDU> wrote:
> I am having a problem getting a CRON job to run in
> LINUX 6.1.  
> 
> I added this line to my crontab using crontab -e
> logged in as root.
> 
> 0 0 * * * ps -ef |awk '$8=="./ezproxy" {print "kill
> -9 " $2}' | sh; cd
> /usr/local/ezproxy; ./ezproxy & 
> 
> This line worked on other LINUX and UNIX
> installations.  It also works from
> the command prompt.
> It fails to run.
> 
> Any ideas???
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Re: trouble with CRON

[terry white]

on "4-16-2002" "Shroyer-Matchan, Cherie (SHROYECL)" writ:

: I added this line to my crontab using crontab -e logged in as root.
: 
: 0 0 * * * ps -ef |awk '$8=="./ezproxy" {print "kill -9 " $2}' | sh; cd
: /usr/local/ezproxy; ./ezproxy & 


       The  first  form  of this command is used to install a new
       crontab from some named file  or  standard  input  if  the
       pseudo-filename ``-'' is given.
  
... from my reading of it, a cron entry is looking for a 'named' file,
rather than, a string of commands ...
  

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