Problem with cron
Steven Stern
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Sat Mar 23 18:56:13 UTC 2013
On 03/23/2013 12:47 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 03/23/2013 08:58 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
>> On 03/22/2013 03:16 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>> I have my computers registered with the Linux Counter, and my main
>>> desktop machine is supposed to update its status once a week, using a
>>> cron job:
>>>
>>> # added by lico-update.sh version 0.3.14
>>> 58 11 * * 4 /home/joe/bin/lico-update.sh -m
>>>
>>> The permissions on the script are right, and if run manually, it works.
>>> This worked fine under Fedora 16, but doesn't now that I'm running F
>>> 17. Does anybody know what's happened, or how to find out?
>>
>> A couple of thoughts:
>> 1. Does the script have executable permissions?
>
> Already answered in what you quote.
>
>> 2. Is cron working at all? Add "58 11 * * 4 touch /tmp/cron.test" as
>> another cron job. Does the test file date change?
>
> An interesting possibility.
>
>> 3. Just for laughs, check the SELinux logs to see if there's an AVC. It
>> may be that the script that created and installed the file didn't set
>> the selinux permissions correctly.
>>
>
> I'm not getting any alerts, and if that were the issue, I would. And,
> if you'd like to examine the script, you can find it here:
> http://linuxcounter.net/script/lico-update.sh
One of those things that can bite you in the butt is that the
environment for /bin/sh might be different than than in /bin/bash,
especially as invoked by cron.
Also, shouldn't the line starting with "scriptversion" be a comment?
--
-- Steve
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