[wplug] cron

[Bob Schmertz]

On Thu, 15 May 2003, Chris wrote:

>I am having problem with some cron jobs and I really don't know how to debug
>it.
>
>Here is what's going on.  In my cron.daily dir, I have a script called
>myscripts.  That script just calls 6 other scripts that I wrote.  Up until
>about a week or so ago, everything was working just fine.  Now only the
>first 3 scripts are executed.  Here is myscripts:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>
>#Echo to log file for script check
>/bin/echo "-------------------------------------------" >> tmp/myscript.log

How come there's no / at the beginning of that line?  Probably not the 
problem, though.

>/bin/echo `date` >> /tmp/myscript.log
>
[snip]
>/bin/sleep 1h
>
>#Execute custom scripts
>/bin/bash /root/scripts/Rydexftp.sh
>/bin/bash /root/scripts/Putnam.sh
>/bin/bash /root/scripts/DAZLftp.sh
>/bin/bash /root/scripts/DSTftp.sh
>
>#State that it finished
>/bin/echo "My Daily Cron Tab Script Ended `date`" >> /tmp/myscript.log
[snip]
>
>It dies between the Rydexftp.sh script and the Putnam.sh script.  I looked
>in /var/log/cron but there was nothing about any of the scripts in there.
>Does cron produce any other logs?
>

Cron mails the output of your scripts to the owner of the cron job, in 
this case, root.  Check your mail as root.

-- 
Cheers,
Bob Schmertz