[clug] Cron Problem

[Kim Holburn]

Make the first line #!/bin/sh -vx

On 2004 Oct 12, , at 10:02 AM, Chris Delfs wrote:

> Can someone tell me if there is something obviously wrong with the 
> following.
>
> If I run this script from the command line
> :~/tmp>cat mycat.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> cd /home/delfs/tmp
> /bin/cat file.txt | /bin/mail -s "My Test of cat" delfs at rsc.anu.edu.au
>
> like so
> ~/tmp>./mycat.sh
>
> I get an email containing the text in "file.txt" (file.txt is an ascii 
> text file)
> So far so good
>
> I make a crontab entry
> ~/tmp>crontab -l
> MAILTO=delfs at rsc.anu.edu.au
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> HOME=/home/delfs
> */3 * * * * /home/delfs/tmp/mycat.sh
>
> and I get an email (every three minutes) from root/crond containing
>
> /home/delfs/tmp/mycat.sh: line 3: 13409 Broken pipe             
> /bin/cat file.txt
>     13410 Segmentation fault      | /bin/mail -s "My Test of cat" 
> delfs at rsc.anu.edu.au
>
>
> Do I need extra escapes/quotes in crontabs
>
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