Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:57:47 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Supote Leelasuppakorn <pjn0211@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Shell script in crontab cannot write files into FreeBSD's filesystem. (2nd evised version) Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20071205055038.02503490@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY102-W11B5E42ACC7E6D82E3D6C0B96E0@phx.gbl> References: <BAY102-W11B5E42ACC7E6D82E3D6C0B96E0@phx.gbl>
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At 03:02 AM 12/5/2007, Supote Leelasuppakorn wrote:
>Hi all,
>
> Please anybody help me, I faced the problem with my "crontab".
>I tried to run a shell script which will fetch webpage and save it to
>a directory by using wget but after few minute I cannot see any file
>in such directory
>
> Below are content of shell script, my crontab and also
>file's permission listing.
>
>##########################
># Output of `crontab -l`
>##########################
>SHELL=/bin/sh
>MAILTO=pjn
>* * * * * . /home/pjn/parseGP/fetchPage.sh
>
>
>########################
># file: fetchPage.sh
>########################
>#!/bin/sh
>TIMESTAMP=`date "+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"`
You are assuming that date is in your path by the above statement. Never
assume you have a good path, unless you set it in your script file. So,
either setup the path you need or use absolute pathnames such as:
TIMESTAMP=`/bin/date "+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"`
>LOGPATH="/home/pjn/parseGP/logs"
>/usr/local/bin/wget --no-cache -a ${LOGPATH}/fetch.log -O
>${LOGPATH}/${TIMESTAMP}.html http://www.blahblah.com
>
>
>########################
># Files' permission
>########################
>blahHost$
>blahHost$ls -ltrd parseGP
>drwxr-xr-x 3 pjn pjn 512 Dec 5 14:27 parseGP
>blahHost$ls -ltr parseGP/
>total 4
>drwxr-xr-x 2 pjn pjn 512 Dec 5 15:11 logs
>-rwxr--r-- 1 pjn pjn 226 Dec 5 15:21 fetchPage.sh
>blahHost$ls -ltr parseGP/logs/
>total 0
>-rw-r--r-- 1 pjn pjn 0 Dec 5 15:14 fetch.log
>blahHost$
>
>
>
>TIA
>Pote
Make sure your script runs correctly outside cron, then test it from inside
cron. Add some echo statements so you can see what is executed, such as:
#!/bin/sh
TIMESTAMP=`/bin/date "+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"`
LOGPATH="/home/pjn/parseGP/logs"
echo $(TIMESTAMP)
echo $(LOGPATH)
echo /usr/local/bin/wget --no-cache -a ${LOGPATH}/fetch.log -O
/usr/local/bin/wget --no-cache -a ${LOGPATH}/fetch.log -O
echo ${LOGPATH}/${TIMESTAMP}.html http://www.blahblah.com
${LOGPATH}/${TIMESTAMP}.html http://www.blahblah.com
-Derek
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