[gentoo-user] cron

[gentoo-user] cron

[Kaushal Shriyan]

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Hi
I have added 30 16 * * * /usr/local/bin/GATEWAY/gatewaySMS.sh in roots
crontab. It does not gets executed by cron,
where can i look for cron logs or errors on this host

when i run the script by hand it works fine, only thing it needs
file mailbody.txt which is located under /usr/local/bin/GATEWAY/

Any ideas

Thanks and Regards

Kaushal

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Re: [gentoo-user] cron

[CARON Hugo]

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Hi,
you use crontab -e?
What cron deamon you use and is start?
For log if you use syslog-ng with default conf use /var/log/messages

This is ligne in log
Sep 15 21:00:01 ariel cron[19510]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons )

Hugo

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:16:02AM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi
> I have added 30 16 * * * /usr/local/bin/GATEWAY/gatewaySMS.sh in roots
> crontab. It does not gets executed by cron,
> where can i look for cron logs or errors on this host
> 
> when i run the script by hand it works fine, only thing it needs
> file mailbody.txt which is located under /usr/local/bin/GATEWAY/
> 
> Any ideas
> 
> Thanks and Regards
> 
> Kaushal

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Re: [gentoo-user] cron

[Mick]

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On Monday 15 September 2008, CARON Hugo wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:16:02AM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> > Hi
> > I have added 30 16 * * * /usr/local/bin/GATEWAY/gatewaySMS.sh in roots
> > crontab. It does not gets executed by cron,
> > where can i look for cron logs or errors on this host

You should be able to see cron errors popping up in /var/log/messages.  More 
detailed errors could be captured in a specific log for this cron job, if you 
append something like this to your line:

30 16 * * * /usr/local/bin/GATEWAY/gatewaySMS.sh \
--logging /var/log/gatewaySMS.log  (all on the same line)

> > when i run the script by hand it works fine, only thing it needs
> > file mailbody.txt which is located under /usr/local/bin/GATEWAY/

Check for access rights of that directory/file by the user that your 
gatewaySMS.sh script is run as and also check that your user is a member of 
the cron group.

PS.  You may have to create the /var/log/gatewaySMS.log by hand (use touch as 
root) and you would also need to add something in logrotate if you use this 
to manage the rotation of your log files.
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Regards,
Mick

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