Shell script and cron entry disappeared!?

[smguenther]

Hi,

I have remove the space between "#!" and "/bin/sh" but still the script isn't executed by cron.

And I have changed the script so that the logfile would be created in /share/MD0_DATA/admin

Stefan

[pwilson]

I have remove the space between "#!" and "/bin/sh" but still the script isn't executed by cron.
And I have changed the script so that the logfile would be created in /share/MD0_DATA/admin

Sorry Stefan, but that's all I got. Will the script run "without logging" from cron?


Patrick.

[smguenther]

Hi,

is there maybe a way to log, whether cron even tries to execute the script and whether it recognizes the entry in the crontab file?
Maybe this could give me an idea what the problem could be.

Stefan

[michaeldaly600]

whilst troubleshooting using the above guidelines I found that cron would not run an updated crontab file (ie updated via Method 1 bis). I eventually found there were two instances of crond running eg

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11155 admin       668 S   /usr/sbin/crond -l 9 -c /tmp/cron/crontabs
19980 admin      4432 S   /usr/local/apache/bin/apache -k start
29493 admin       628 S   /usr/sbin/crond -l 9 -c /tmp/cron/crontabs

Running the stop script twice, then starting, seemed to solve the problem ie:

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 /etc/init.d/crond.sh stop (twice)
 /etc/init.d/crond.sh start

HTH
'600

[Briain]

Hi

All this additional complexity puzzles me as I've always done it the easy way (and it works on both my TS-219P+ and TS-659 Pro):

First, I copy the existing crontab to a share

cp /etc/config/crontab /share/Public

I then edit it using Notepad++

I then do the below (still being at /etc/config) to remove the one in /etc/config, then replace it with my modified one, then restart the crond.sh:

rm crontab
cp /share/Public/crontab .
/etc/init.d/crond.sh restart

The only thing that would be re-written (if you changed it) is the /etc/init.d/backup_conf.sh line - if you change that one, it changes it back again - but the rest of them seem to persist.

# m h dom m dow cmd
3 3 * * * /sbin/vs_refresh
3 3 * * * /sbin/clean_reset_pwd
2 3 * * * /sbin/hwclock -s
3 3 * * * /etc/init.d/idmap.sh dump
# 0-59/15 * * * * /etc/init.d/nss2_dusg.sh
4 3 * * 3 /etc/init.d/backup_conf.sh

Out of curiosity, a new entry has appeared since I updated to 3.7.3 (nss2_dusg.sh); does anyone know what it does? [Edit: Just found out that it's surveillance station, which I don't use, so I've #'d it out; if you just delete it, it pops back after a reboot, but using # in front of it - as shown above - survives a reboot].

Bri